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...last week at Curtiss Airport, L. I. a group of men was observed stretching a huge, soiled piece of cloth between two poles alongside a trench. A stovepipe was rigged between the trench and a hole in the fabric. Someone touched a match to a pile of kindling in the trench. Soon the fabric began to bulge and billow with hot air inside it. After ten minutes of fire-stoking and manipulating of ropes, the fabric took shape as a balloon, tugging and straining at its guys. A trapeze was rigged below the balloon's mouth, and just above...
...definition of Gandhism as "goats milk, loin cloth, etc." is offered as a comic caricature, one can appreciate the writer's sense of humor. But if that is all he sincerely discovers in Gandhism, his state of mind is to be pitied. Gandhi would not resent being dubbed as a "renegade, philistine, etc," by his critie, for he would find himself in a distinguished company of many of the foremost communist leaders of yesterday, that may be joined by many more of today...
...strides past the finish. Jockey Fisher stopped whipping his horse and reached over to slash at Jockey Meade. He dismounted, ran up to the judges' stand to protest that Meade had fouled him by holding his saddle cloth before the finish. For a moment everyone in the grandstand could see Fisher, a tiny, wildly excited figure in bright orange silks, waving both arms. The judges-aware that both jockeys had ridden roughly-turned their backs. Jockey Fisher sat down, buried his face in his hands. (Both he and Meade were later suspended.) On the score board, the word "official...
Died. Ernest Hopkinson. 60. vice president of U. S. Rubber Co.. inventor of many a rubber product and processing method; after a six-month illness: in Manhattan. Increasingly popular with textile manufacturers is his latest invention. Lastex, thread with a rubber core which makes cloth that stretches two ways...
...declare a complete embargo of Russian goods and cut off from Russia some $130,000,000 a year of her best customer's trade. Every diplomat, every reporter in Moscow fought for a seat in that blue & white room and gazed eagerly at the tables covered with red cloth where sat three sack-suited judges...