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...shoes and covered over the spots he had neglected to polish. Now, as he turned down Plympton Street to the river, a hot draft of air singed his eyelashes, and as he passed the back doors of restaurants the smell of greases caught on his coat, till the next gust blew them off again, and he hurried on. At the river he would find a plot of grass from which he might dangle his feet into the water with no one to blame him for it. Often he had sat there in the Spring and watched the sun play Lotto...
...read his statement to the Committee in a detached, hesitant manner, as if the story were a new and strange one which he had never heard before. Bringing the now familiar events up to the fateful "00:30 [12:30 a. m.] 4, April," he read: "A very sharp gust struck the ship. It seemed to be much more severe than any I have ever experienced in that it was exerted so suddenly ... a maximum force in two or three seconds. 1 noted immediately that the lower rudder-control rope had carried away." Then the upper control rope went. Then...
Commander Wiley then testified to a significant change of mind. The amazingly severe "gust" which had wrenched the Akron was not a gust at all, he decided, but the shock of the ship's stern striking the water. (He recalled that the "gust'' had blown no wind through the control car.) No second shock was felt. Hence the important deduction that the Akron had been broken not by wind but by water. However, Metalsmith Erwin still insisted that the ship was still flying tail in air when he saw the girders snap. When the tail...
Glass-"Little banks!" Little corner grocerymen who get together $10,000 or $15,000 and then invite the deposits of their community and then at the very first gust of disaster topple over and ruin their depositors! What we need in this country are real banks and real bankers...
...clambered over the airplane's wing and into the forward cockpit. Pilot Harrigan reached up, jerked a lever, disengaged his plane-hook from the trapeze bar. At the same instant he gunned his motor, nosed his plane down in a power dive to clear the airship before an upward gust could possibly cause a foul. Then he headed for Lakehurst where another plane waited to fly Admiral Moffett to Washington...