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...Grosse He Airport, Detroit, last week Pilot Vance Breese took a Parks biplane to 2,500 ft., cut the motor, stalled it into a spin, yanked a release cord. A little "pilot 'chute" popped out of its container under the fuselage, dragging a big 'chute (60 ft.) billowing up and over the tail. The plane, suspended by its centre wing section from the parachute, floated earthward at about 15 m. p. h.. swinging and gyrating as it settled. On alighting, only damage was to landing-gear and lower wing...
...seduce her granddaughter in her presence. Seven Against One, played on a double stage, showed a group of patriotic priests praying for the death of a dictator who had jailed them. On the other side, the politician acutely suffered from the effects of prayer. For her play, The Severed Cord, Miss Finsterwald won a similar prize last year (TIME...
...contemporary plays by comparatively young and successful dramatists. Mr. Sherwood has followed the earlier success of "The Road to Rome" with "Waterloo Bridge", which has had a long and profitable run this past winter in New York. Mr. Howard is known best as the author of "The Silver Cord", and of "Ned McCobb's Daughter", one of the Theatre Guild successes. "Half Gods," his last play, had a brief life on an unsympathetic Broadway...
When a man goes over the side of his disabled airplane, from deep in his consciousness comes the reflex which makes him pull the rip cord, located over his heart, and open up his life saver. Psychologically it is almost impossible to forget to pull. Three hundred feet of altitude is the safe minimum in which the chute can be used, although jumps of less height are on record. The highest jump on record is one of better than 24,000 ft. At that height, the jumper had to have oxygen for breathing. The longest delayed jump was from...
Reducing prices, and thereby attracting dollar-pinched customers. Errett Lobban ("E. L.") Cord inaugurated an intelligent way of doing that. His Cord Corp. controls Lycoming Manufacturing Co. and Stinson Aircraft Corp., which uses Lycoming motors. Heretofore Stinson has paid Lycoming its regular price for motors. Mr. Cord ordered Lycoming to sell Stinson motors at absolute factory cost, a thing Lycoming can well afford because its aviation motor business is a small part of its whole. Stinson thus can charge so much less for its finished planes. This it did during last week. For competitive reasons others, notably Command-Aire...