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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inventor Perl calculates to leave the ground at 110 m. p. h., reach 310 m. p. h. in 20 minutes, attain the stratosphere by a direct climb at 45 degrees (instead of the usual circling) in 100 minutes, thereafter fly at 650 to 750 m. p. h...
...Thomas O. Marvin, wife of the U. S. Tariff Commissioner, told last week how, upon entering a Boston antique shop, she found $3,000 worth of bric-a-brac which had been stolen early in June from the Marvin summer home near Portsmouth, N. H...
...Wright Jr. of Canada, son of the University of Pennsylvania's oldtime rowing coach (who was there to watch him row), lost by three feet the Diamond Sculls, which he won last year, to Holland's L. H. F. Gunther...
Editor Wood, enthralled, got Publisher McCormick to agree. Failing the services of Pilot Eielson, Cramer suggested tall, bald Pilot Robert H. Cast, 33, whom Mr. McCormick soon commandeered from his friend John Daniel Hertz, onetime Yellow Cab tycoon...
...once been a tailor. Soon the wife of his secretary, writing under the name of May Manton, started The Queen, eight-page fashion sheet. Along with McCall patterns, The Queen prospered in a small way. After Scotsman McCall's death in 1885 May Manton's husband, George H. Bladworth, took charge of The Queen, eventually made it McCall's Magazine...