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...lies largely beneath the Potomac, and 2) most of the 250 acres of contiguous land is government-controlled. Last year Franklin Roosevelt urgently recommended development of Gravelly Point, last spring he tried to jog the 75th Congress into doing something about it. He had dreamed about a bloody crackup at the present field. In its flurried closing days, however, Congress again failed to provide an airport site, but it did set up the coordinating Civil Aeronautics Authority, leaving it largely under Presidential control...
...published in 1932 at the bottom of Depression I. Printed at his own expense. 91,000 copies have been sold. Robert Rhea first went to Colorado Springs in 1910 with tuberculosis, in three years was pronounced cured. But in the air service during the War he had a minor crackup, got influenza and pneumonia, was discharged as permanently and totally disabled. Seeking relief from pain in utter exhaustion, he worked in bed at market studies begun earlier, finally completed the exacting task of charting Dow-Jones industrial and rail averages from January 1, 1897. These charts, magazine articles...
...belongings. The winged lancer squares off on the desk calendar and snorts contemptuously at a picture of the Vagabond's best girl. Bored, he revs up his motor and decides to leaves. He mistakes the mirror for a window and is quite some shaken up by the minor crackup which ensues. Then, having been aroused, he changes instantly from a disturbance into a menace. He runs out his stinger to full length and charges the bed in a blind rage. The Vagabond retreats under the covers; he is in no mood to fight. Overhead he hears the motor drone round...
Most talk of a Japanese crackup, thinks Author Price, is wishful thinking. According to his observation, the practical Chinese accept Japanese rule far more willingly than is supposed. In Manchuria, where he accompanied a punitive expedition against "bandits," he found a stable government and currency, intensive beginnings of mass education ("strongly pro-Manchukuo but anti-nobody"), regeneration of former "bandits" by means of seed loans, roads, vocational guidance...
Died. Eduardo Justo, 28, son of Argentine President Agustin P. Justo; in an Argentine army plane crackup; near the flooded Itacumbu River in northwestern Uruguay. Eduardo Justo's deathmates: one colonel, three lieutenant colonels, one major, one lieutenant, one radio operator...