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...Youthful Mrs. Jessie Maud Keith-Miller, famed for her 1927 co-flight from England to Australia, wanted to "put myself over as a commercial pilot" by showing she could fly a "rotten" plane as well as a good one. In a rebuilt Eaglerock Bullet which she called an "unairworthy crate rescued from the junkpile," devoid even of a turn-&- bank indicator, she flew solo last fortnight from Pittsburgh to Havana. Despite a 30-m.p.h. wind, despite her own admitted fright and premonition of failure, she took off last week from Havana to return across the Gulf. She never reached Miami...
Fordyce Drop Forge & Tool Factory. His first appearaace is as a common workman-though later he becomes general manager-going to his job with his dinner pail. The dinner pail is the size of an automobile crate and it contains a hogshead of coffee. From this point on the audience is relieved of all sense of proportion and reason...
...current report of the Field Museum, Chicago, Karl P. Schmidt, assistant curator of reptiles, announced that he had received a rare Texas plated lizard, which he had long wanted. Found in a crate of lettuce by a grocer of Deerfield, Ill., it had come as a stowaway from southern Texas...
...ignited grass in the surrounding field. Racing through the sewer the flame blasted the covers off 156 Weehawken manholes, causing residents to scurry to their cellars. Firemen were summoned to put out a blaze on an Erie R. R. freight loading platform, started by the burning grass. A chicken crate factory started burning down; two firefighters were overcome. A paper factory also caught fire. Match-thrower Moyer was expected...
...young, high-bred Holstein bull, en route from Pennsylvania to Porto Rico (object: paternity), arrived last week on the Staten Island shore of New York Harbor in a big strong crate on a motor truck. The truck went aboard the ferryboat Nassau. The motion of the ferry excited the bull. It hooked at the crate's slats, then hurled its 1,200 lbs. against the end boards, burst through, charged the truck driver and the ferry's brass-buttoned mate. All passengers and the mate fled to the top deck, leaving the bull snorting and plunging below. Came...