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Errett Lobban Cord, automobile & aviation tycoon, was watching an airplane motor on a test block in a Los Angeles shop. The propeller snapped, sheared through a wire netting, knocked him unconscious. At a soaring meet at Elmira, N. Y., Richard Chichester du Pont, 24, son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. took his father for his first hop in a sailplane. A shift in the wind whipped the heavy glider into a ground loop, spilled it into a clump of bushes. Pilot du Pont & parent were unscratched...
...audience felt better when Professor Bohr, fiddling with a loudspeaker cord, short-circuited the apparatus and made it blare. It was much easier, and more pleasant, to understand round-faced young Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California tell how he transmuted elements with "deuton" bullets...
...monoplanes with twin Wasp engines, the new Boeings whipped back & forth between San Francisco and New York in 21½ hr. westbound, 20 hr. eastbound-about 10 hr. faster than former schedules. On the New York- Chicago run the new ships heated the already hot competition between United and Cord's American Airways. Few weeks ago Errett Lobban Cord put on a fleet of new "silent" Curtiss Condors, slashed the running time down to 6½ hr. westbound, si hr. eastbound. The new Boeings lopped another hour from that time...
...favorite Bonette stunt is the ''bomb drop." At the proper moment the daredevil, who has been stunting on the trapeze, hanging by knees and by teeth, pulls a cord releasing a bag of bombs which explode beneath the balloon, enveloping it in a cloud of smoke and a glorious blaze of fireworks. Completely concealed he then yanks his "quickknife" cord, a gadget which cuts the parachute free...
...each & every raise,, whether it affected ten or 10,000, the Press thumped and boomed on its big bass drum.† Errett Lobban Cord, whose companies have never been noted for high wages, upped all workers in his automobile and aviation units 5%. Up 12½% went all Goodyear Tire & Rubber employes. Up 10% went wages in George E. Rogers & Co., Pittsburgh wholesale hay & grain dealers. The upping movement undoubtedly spread far & wide last week, but three things the Press did not report were: 1) What percentage of all U. S. workers received raises. 2) what the wages were before...