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...motor, stalled it into a spin, yanked a release cord. A little "pilot 'chute" popped out of its container under the fuselage, dragging a big 'chute (60 ft.) billowing up and over the tail. The plane, suspended by its centre wing section from the parachute, floated earthward at about 15 m. p. h.. swinging and gyrating as it settled. On alighting, only damage was to landing-gear and lower wing...
...following morning New Yorkers' ears were filled again with war's sky sounds as the squadron, now augmented to 143 planes, returned for a sham battle. At 1,000 ft. flew the attack and torpedo planes, ever and again diving earthward with a crescendo of open motors. Next above roared the heavy bombers. Scouting craft thundered along at 3,000 ft. High above in the bluish haze flashed tiny fighters. From New Jersey came the huge Los Angeles and a procession of small blimps...
Parachute. Miss Myrtle Jarbo plunged from a stunt plane at Toledo, Ohio, secured to a parachute. As she floated earthward, her parents (long divorced) rushed across the flying field to greet her, plunged unexpectedly into each other's arms. Came love. Three days later they remarried...
Fire ate up Ely Court, fashionable school for finishing young ladies, at Greenwich, Conn. Red tongues danced upon a rooftree and gobbled earthward far faster than firemen could pump water from a nearby lake. Fleeing with such midnight garments and belongings as they could snatch up, the owners and principals, Miss Elizabeth Ely and her sister, Mrs. Sara (sic) Parsons, could only give thanks that none but themselves, the housekeeper and some servants were in the long, tall building. The 100 or so young ladies were safely home for holidays. It was just 40 years since the Misses...
...twice daily) and concentrated on the dark-stained areas of its surface which remain fairly constant in their own cycle of changes and seem to indicate the existence of seasons on Mars-a 340-day summer and 347-day winter. Last week it was summer time on Mars' earthward hemisphere. The planet's ice cap was almost all melted. The stained areas showed the faint regular lines which some observers have called "canals." Their irregular spread, coupled with measurements of their heat, suggest that the stains are seasonal vegetation...