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...trail of smoke dripped downward until it hung like a great white curtain completely concealing the airship. Paramount Sound News men, who staged the stunt, ground their cameras busily. As the Los Angeles climbed above the smoke screen and headed for home, the white vapor continued to drift lower and lower until mild panic occurred in the streets. A man riding atop a Fifth Avenue bus began to gasp and cough. He shouted "Sulphur!" and led a stampede of passengers down the stairs. Motorists complained to police that particles of the smoke had burned tiny holes in the tops...
...from a Dry-voting State." Commander Stevens had this to say about Prohibition: "One of the best places to feel the pulse of the people is in a Pullman smoking room. I have yet to sit in on a smoker conversation where the subject did not eventually drift to Prohibition and stay there for a thorough discussion. I believe we should really find out what the American people want. That will end it, one way or another." Before it rushed for trains home, the Legion also voted: to turn its back on the Bonus for the present; to approve...
First need this year, reported the Council last week, is relief. But then "are we to continue indefinitely to drift . . . through lack of any adequate social planning? . . . Our economic life now seems to be without a chart." Chief trouble is the present distribution of wealth: "the stark contrast of vast fortunes and breadlines." The average worker earns (according to 1927 statistics) $23.17 a week; millions fall below the average. Of all the wealth in the U. S. in 1921, 33% was owned by 1% of the population; 64% by 10%. Society treats the needy in these times as if they...
...David wants her most, so Charles helps him tie up Grosjean, kidnap the girl. Grosjean pursues them, somehow manages to catch up, shoots Charles. It is a shrewd blow, but Charles recovers. Such is Grosjean's remorse that he is allowed to join the brothers' menage. They drift to Mexico, collect more horses, women, children, a priest. Karin, tired of wandering, wants a house, so they decide to marry their women and settle down. Their community is settled, thriving, increasing, when aging Karin dies. The brothers leave all the rest, take to the trail once more, wander till...
...been predicted.- Where are they? For Greenland glaciers calved their bergs and Arctic ice floes cracked up as usual. Lieutenant Commander Edward H. Smith of the Coast Guard, who expects to be on the Graf Zeppelin's proposed flight this summer, last week thought he knew. Bergs drift south from the Arctic toward Labrador and Newfoundland. Normally an "ice fence" exists along those coasts, against which the bergs strike. The soft collision sends the bergs caroming eastward into the shipping lanes. This year, he believes and hopes to find, the "ice fence" has failed to form. Consequently the southing...