Word: closes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...havoc was on paper. Real tragedy swept the clouds when two planes, flying in close formation in the simulated air raid on Columbus, collided at 10,000 ft. Lieut. Edward L. Meadow was chewed to bits by the propeller of a plane piloted by Lieut. A. Fred Solter. Lieut. Solter, parachuting for his life, was carried to a hospital...
There was a steel fire door on the film room fitted with a thermostat to close it if the temperature became too high. But sometime before, a blundering plumber had placed a water pipe in such a way that although it did not prevent the closing of the door by hand, it interfered with the aim of the automatic closing device. The door failed to close when the film began to burn and the gases (both poisonous and explosive) issuing forth, were driven through the building by a ventilating fan a few feet away...
...Ever since the close of the War the American government has consistently taken this position. It has never accepted membership on the reparations commission. The comparatively small sums which it receives under the Dawes Plan are applied solely to the settlement of the claims judicially ascertained by the mixed claims commission (the United States and Germany), and to the repayment of the expenses of the American Army of Occupation at Coblenz...
London society was feverishly trying to guess last week who the author of King George's latest biography might be. The book, "By a Person in Close Touch with the Royal Family," was begun at the height of the King's illness in the ghoulish expectation of being the first posthumous biography. With the King's recovery, proof sheets of the volume were forwarded to Buckingham Palace for approval last week. Officials, horrified at the revelation of personal details in the King's private life, not only forbade its publication but sent special King...
...John Davison Rockefeller Jr. drove to his Manhattan home last week, his car nearly bumped an inebriate couple emerging from a speakeasy close by the Rockefeller residence. To avoid undesirable neighbors, Mr. Rockefeller long ago bought most of the block. Rockefeller lawyers were reported planning action to dry up the Rockefeller neighborhood, including the section bounded by Fifth and Sixth avenues and 48th and 51st streets, honeycombed with speakeasies, which Mr. Rockefeller lately bought as site for the Metropolitan Opera and a smart shopping centre...