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Another section of the laboratory will be used for demonstrating vibration phenomena as they occur in machinery and in buildings. One machine is to be used for studying the effect of damping torsional vibrations in the crank shafts of reciprocating engines of industrial machinery...
...Curtis, a builder of small boats, said that a onetime rumrunner had come to him on March 9 as go-between for the Lindbergh baby-snatchers. Mr. Curtis spent two fruitless days trying to get in touch with Col. Lindbergh, whose house is still flooded by several bags of crank mail daily and constant telephone calls. Having failed to get in touch with the lost child's parents, Mr. Curtis sought out two fellow-townsmen connected with the family: Rev. Harold Dobson-Peacock. pastor of the largest Episcopal congregation in the South who used to know the Morrows when...
...While crank letters poured into the Lindbergh home by the hundreds, all of which proved inconclusive, there were several tangible pieces of evidence connected with the crime...
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...Miami, Fla., Mrs. Lucille McGirt cranked her automobile in gear. With her dress caught in the crank, dragging her with it, the car crashed through a wall into a doctor's office, where Mrs. McGirt died an hour later of a broken neck...