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...Grapevine Canyon 150 mi. north of Los Angeles where the tube pitches down 900 ft. Inside the pipe 16 workmen went to work scraping muck from the slimy walls, lit by a string of electric lights. One man slipped, slid, clutched at the man beneath, broke the light cord. Shouting and clawing, the two men pitched down the steel tunnel 900 ft. into dark and muck, carrying 14 other shouting, clawing men with them in one big bundle. All were injured, some dangerously...
...Chicago's swank Lake Shore Drive district a six-room apartment in the building where lives Samuel Insull Jr. (who has rented three-fourths of his duplex) was recently rented for $300, while a four-room one in the building called "home" by Auburn's Errett Lobban Cord costs $200 against the former price of $300. In the cheaper apartments of from $50 to $80 a month there is only a 7% vacancy. The white-collar Lawndale district has vacancies of 5% against 16% in the cheaper '"Canal" section. Owned residences (31% of Chicagoans own their homes...
...would have been racked, flayed, burned as heretics. Last week, as the International Astronomical Union they were feted and fed. Harvard's David Bedell Pickering nimbly took their pictures and Cambridge's Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, broadcasting his description of an expanding universe, tangled his feet in the microphone cord...
...second reason is well illustrated by American Airways and United Air Lines. American Airways is replacing Fords with Stinsons built by its new and influential stockholder Errett Lobban Cord. United, which currently flies Fords between New York and Chicago, is getting ready to install new high-speed Boeings capable of crossing the U. S. in 24 hours. Transcontinental & Western Air is expected to patronize Curtiss-Wright, to which it is related through their mutual holding company, North American Aviation...
Last week's crowd caught its first glimpse of "Pop" Cleveland greeting each woman pilot in the Cord Cup Race with an enormous hug & kiss. Fifty-nine planes had set out from Washington and Los Angeles a week earlier, their paths converging at Bartlesville, Okla. into a home stretch to Cleveland. As it was scored by lap-points, everyone knew when the racers reached Cincinnati that Roy Hunt of Oklahoma would win in his slow Great Lakes Trainer...