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...pictures enclosed by Reader Habicht shows the U. S. Navy's dirigible Los Angeles moored to the mast of the oiler Patoka at sea. The second picture shows the Los Angeles, blown skyward by a sudden gust, sweeping the16,800-ton oiler after it high out of water. No such incident ever did or could occur. Let Reader Habicht examine his copy Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung more closely. Let him note that it is the annual April Fool's edition. Other pictures in that issue: A "3,000-year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing...
...storm broke suddenly last week. It was the worst in the history of the industry. A flurry of price-cutting suddenly changed to an open burst of cutthroat competition. Prices were slashed from 35? to 24? in the first mighty blast. The second gust toppled them to 19?. Then there followed tales of hurried secret conferences among alcohol men, of a truce. Prices became firmer, but the storm had done its damage. Alcohol men conceded that it will be a long time before business is done at 35?, or the now-to-be-marveled-at 1929 high...
...officially, had made no flight. Reason: he had taken along no barograph to register in ink, on a clock-controlled drum, the fact that his craft was in flight for the time elapsed. Later, properly equipped with a barograph, Barstow took off again. After soaring eight hours, a gust of wind caught his sailplane, dashed it to the bottom of a canyon. His injuries will confine him to bed for two months...
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...Manhattan, one Angelina del Vescovo, six, sat watching her aunt iron. A gust of wind blew a piece of paper in the window against the iron where it ignited, then into the child's lap. She died of burns...