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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Track relics include the shoe worn by Wendell Baker '86, in setting a new world's record for the 440 yard dash, the she which broke and came off 155 yards from the finish...
...installments have now left the press. Approaching his material from an entirely new angle, the author has left to us, the contemporary sons of Harvard, and to our successors, a book of rare charm, a history which is lightly written yet accurate, familiar but not impertinent. From start to finish it reads like a first rate novel...
Estimated expenditures for fiscal 1937 were set at $7,762,835, 300. Only$560,000,000 would be needed to finish off Bonus payments, and less would be spent on the Veterans' Administration, War Department, CCC, and recovery & relief. As for increases, $405,000,000 would be required for Social Security and expenses for AAA, debt retirement and interest on public debt would be up. In addition, the sum of all other expenditures would be $448,986,000 over 1936. chiefly because of public works and national defense. Finally, the President dangled a figure left out of his regular...
That afternoon a crowd of 15,000 watched the five surviving planes drop in. First flyer to finish was Brooklyn's William G. Warner in a Standard Vultee. But the race was won neither by Pilot Warner nor by Pilot Louis Brewer, the only other male left in the race. For the first time in six years the Bendix Race went to a woman- Louise McPhetridge Thaden. Flying with Co-Pilot Blanche Xoyes in a Beechcraft high-wing biplane. Pilot Thaden started several hours after Warner and Brewer, shot across...
...Bendix finish was not the first thrill for the crowd. It had already seen a parachute jumper bashed to death in front of the stands, watched the 34 private planes in the annual Ruth Chatterton air derby buzz in from Cleveland led by San Francisco's rich Sportsman Frank Spreckels, who won by an elaborate score based on flying efficiency, not speed. The cross-country junkets over, the Races settled into the usual four-day shindig of stunting, formation flying "pylon polishing" before the final grand event-the Thompson Trophy Race, No. 1 U. S. closed-course speed test...