Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just before one daybreak a mahogany-colored rumrunner with a wide white stripe just above the water line shot out from the shadowy Canadian shore. Within 100 feet of a Detroit dock it was intercepted by U. S. Customs Speedboat 1401, patrolling the waterfront. Without warning a man in the bow of the rumrunner opened revolver fire on the two customs men in No. 1401. Sharply the U. S. agents returned the fire, forced the rumrunner to veer about, retreat toward the international line. No. 1401 gave chase up along Belle Isle under a peppery rain of bullets. Its windshield...
Flying with a mechanic and a passenger between Hartford and Willimantic, Conn, last week, Lieutenant Carl Dixon, Connecticut National Guard pilot, discovered a wheel loose and a strut broken on his landing gear. To land meant wreckage. What to do? He climbed to two thousand feet, gave the controls to the mechanic, who knew but little of piloting, broke a hole in the fuselage bottom, crawled through head first. Hanging by his feet he ingeniously used his belt, a piece of rope and a shoelace to lash the broken gear together. The repair sufficed to let him land safely...
...Sardis, Miss., in 1921, 500 men and women collected a mass of leaves. To a log in the middle, they fastened Henry Lowry. When his feet began to roast they brought his wife and small daughter to see how Lowry strained to swallow hot ashes...
...Morgan Foster Larson of New Jersey is making substantial repairs to his summer home at Seagirt, N. J. Reason: Last week an airplane piloted by William Taft, Red Bank, N. J., zoomed into the roof, pierced it, stopped with its nose four feet from the empty gubernatorial bed. Greatly alarmed was the Governor's mother, 86, who was about to enter the Governor's bedroom...
...feet can run far. Last week one John Salo, plodding Passaic, N. J., policeman, reached Los Angeles, where he had pegged from Manhattan. His running had not been in vain, for he was winner of C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle's transcontinental bunion derby. In a burst of finishing speed, Runner Salo galloped 26 miles around Wrigley Field, while ten thousand Californians cheered, hooted, whistled. His cross-country time: 526 hr., 57 min., 30 sec. His winning purse...