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...while the CABmen watched with narrowed eyes, the DC-4 suddenly lurched and headed for the ground, 4,000 feet below. People on the ground heard an ear-shattering roar from its engines. The doomed plane's drunken glide steepened into a dive. From the vertical it went slightly on to its back, completing part of a wide outside loop. From the CAB plane, the inspectors saw it plunge into a clump of trees, disintegrate in a great cloud of smoke and flying debris...
...place to live. They high-pressure a kindly prof into letting them make a flophouse of his living room; but a big-shot trustee gets mad at the idea. Then they soft-soap a racketeer into turning a building he has leased into a dormitory instead of a dive. But the trustee only gets madder. It takes an act more of plotboiling to get the boys safely enrolled...
...examples of what sudden slump would mean, they have samples in the sharp cut of restaurant and night club activity last fall, the spectacle of full-scale fur sales in December, the desperate attempt of liquor companies to head off a price war when liquor sales took a nose dive. These are piecemeal readjustments, the wholesale collapse of an over-expanded price structure would be much worse if for no other reason than its immensity...
Sole man to qualify for final action among the Crimson roster was Gorman. Three of the locals were nosed out by one position on Saturday: Chuck Hoelzer in the 200-yard breast stroke, Forbes Norris in the 440 free. and Bob Aaron in the 3-meter dive. Tom Drohan took eighth in this latter event, right behind his co-entrant...
...other New England qualifier in the dive was Dartmouth's Ed Leede, who placed high in the standings with 152 points. According to expectations the Blue hosts were setting the pace...