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...that this "dolly" had not been tested with the ship weighing over 20,000 lb. Also he knew that now, with a last-moment extra fuel tank added, the ship weighed 28,845 Ib. Earlier tests had come out decimal perfect; Designer Igor Sikorsky knew his business; the three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors had demonstrated their power conclusively and would doubtless lift the whole weight free as a bird. But still, that "dolly" . . . However, Mechanic Islamoff said nothing...
...public had all but forgotten there was a prize . Data. Captain Fonck's two care fully-chosen U. S. companions for the flight are Captain Homer M. Berry, pilot, and Lieut. Allan P. Snody, navigator. The S-35 has a wingspread of 101 feet. Her motors are three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiters, 425 h.p. apiece, brought over, installed and tested by the makers mechanic She will carry seven tons of gasoline, 1,500 lbs. of oil, enough for 4,300 miles (about 700 miles margin for defection or head winds) in the 3,660-mile route from New York...
...freedom of Moscow's homeless children, thousands of them, parentless, homeless. . . . highwaymen, murderers and dope fiends almost before their bones have hardened. They have gnome-like, filthy faces, childish eyes, shaggy hair, long men's coats, trousers pinned up or cut and ragged. They shuffle together, taking counsel, then swift as swallows make one after another a leap at some shopman's counter, grabbing anything, running like the wind...
...people. Only a few could see the starting-line. Halfway down the course, the race was broadcast by a loudspeaker. "The crews are paddling to the start," said the cracked, metallic voice; "they are in position . . . the race has begun." There was an extraordinary pause. Then the gnome in the radio said that Cambridge was leading by six lengths. Amazement on the banks. Again the voice . . . "Oxford is sinking," it said...
...bloody red, like a huge socket from which the eye had been torn, stared sightlessly at him. In this story, the first and most powerful in the book, Mr. Gerald Bullet adeptly spins out mystification until it becomes mysticism. The Enchanted Moment tells how a certain gnome made a top-hatted, cut-awayed, striped-trousered bondholder do a dance without top hat, cutaway, trousers. The Mole was the size of a pea. It was situated on the chin of a storekeeper's wife. Out of it grew three black feline whiskers and the storekeeper's destruction...