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...CLYDE E. KEELER...
...alone in her act, with single spotlight and bass drums booming. Her most famed stunt was "the giant half flange": rolling herself upward on a suspended rope, swinging her body over her shoulder while hanging 50 ft. from the tanbark. Her record: 249 turns. Her first husband was one Clyde Ingalls, her second was Alfredo Cordona, Mexican trapeze artist, leader of the Cordox troupe...
...Young and his subcommittee found was at the top of Mt. Washington, N. H. where the wind blew 186 m.p.h. A skyscraper built atop Mt. Washington would have to withstand a pressure of 102 Ib. per sq. ft. Homer Gage Balcom, Manhattan consulting engineer, told assembled engineers that Professor Clyde Tucker Morris of Ohio State University is conducting experiments in wind pressure on Manhattan's Empire State Building, world's tallest. Total wind pressure on the 1,250-ft. Empire State Building is more than 4,000,000 Ib. Seven per cent of this total represents pressure...
Coyote. Flying low over a South Dakota prairie with a hunter as companion, Pilot Clyde Ice shot a coyote, landed, tossed the animal into the cockpit. As the plane flew on again the coyote revived, started fighting its captors. The ship spun crazily while Pilot Ice turned to help his friend. He ended the battle with a monkey-wrench - favorite weapon of airmen for subduing rambunctious passengers and panic-stricken pupils.* Pilot Ice got back to his controls just in time to prevent a crash...
...Joseph Valverde, cousin of the owner) got to the ship's one lifeboat, floated in it off the Delaware Capes for 68 bitter-cold hours. When three of them died, they were slipped overboard by the others. The storm was still raging when the remaining five were rescued by Clyde Line's S. S. Henry R. Mallory. Emanuel Valverde, his wife, Willie the chauffeur and two seamen stayed with the Barbados, the two Packard limousines, the seven pianos and Emanuel Valverde's dream? at the bottom...