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High over droughty Kansas, one afternoon last week, a U. S. Army bomber flew into a dust storm. Lieut. Harold Neely eased his ship out of the sudden dusk and up to 11,000 feet, where the air was clear. Noting that the gasoline gauge was low, he turned on an auxiliary tank. Both motors spat, stopped. The plane nosed into a slow, singing glide. Pilot Neely peered down at the billowing, blinding sea of dust between him and the ground. Small indeed were his chances of landing safely. On the plane's interphone he spoke an order...
...Indians arrive late this afternoon at Tufts College in Medford and will be rushed to Soldiers Field for a short limbering up session before dusk. After that they will return to Belmont to spend the night. The Crimson are not planning to leave Cambridge...
Chief. Concerned with the production of both men and machines, Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Louis Norton Newall was last week one of the hardest working men in Europe. From nine o'clock sharp until dusk each day he conferred with Sir Kingsley Wood, with air counsellors, plane manufacturers, training experts. Most nights he did not get home for dinner, some nights did not get there to sleep...
Around whiskey bottles, wherever duck shooters gathered at dusk last week† shop talk was the same. Oldsters held forth about the good old days when there were flights of 150,000,000 ducks instead of 65,000,000, when the season was 3½ months long instead of 45 days, and there was no such thing as daily bag limits (this year's daily bag limit is ten ducks, four geese or brant). Tyros tickled oldsters with their newfangled theories learned on the skeet fields. Everyone grumbled about the Federal "nuisance" regulations: no shooting before...
Along the stonewalls and the dusk The cow-paths come up very steep, The cowbells mingle with the bells That ring on reefs out on the deep...