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There was one very strange thing about this disaster. In similar dirigible wrecks, viz., those of the Shenandoah and the ZR2 (built by England, sold to the U. S.; destroyed over Hull, Eng., Aug. 1921), wind whirled the vessels high before their destruction. In the R-101'S case, the wind and rain seemed to have done the reverse, pressed the ship down to earth, buckled it from above...
...chairman will be J. S. Tow, Acting Chinese Consul General in New York, who, not so occupied with tourists & immigrants as other consuls general, may devote much time to keeping peace among the Tongs. Signer of the pact for the Hip Sing Tong was its President, Author Eng Ying ("Eddie") Gong (TIME, June 2). When the six leaders had signed it, scribes translated the document into brushstrokes on cerise paper, sent it to every U. S. Chinatown, proclaiming Consul Tow and Commissioner Mulrooney overlords of all U. S. Chinese...
...Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company under a Crown charter John Winthrop, arch-Puritan, sailed from Eng land in March 1630, aboard the tiny Arbella. On June 12 he landed at Salem. With him were 900 settlers in eleven ships. They moved to the mouth of the Charles River where they built a village and called it Boston...
TONG WAR-!?Eng Ying Gong and Bruce Grant?Nicholas L. Brown...
...Author Eng Ying (Eddie) Gong, proprietor of an Americanized restaurant at No. 1 Pell Street (nucleus of Manhattan's Chinatown) observed, noted, took part in tong warfare, wrote an inside story of it. Along came Reporter Bruce Grant, who read the story, realized that it was an expose exciting and spectacular enough to appeal to underworld-minded readers, was the first authentic history of the tongs ever written, was a splendid scoop. He wrote Author Gong's manuscript into reportorial text. All Reporter Grant needed was a rewrite...