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Without Warning (by Ralph Spencer Zink; A. L. Jones, producer) is a mystery melodrama which takes place in an experimental hangar of a U. S. arsenal on an unnamed island off the Atlantic coast. It opens with a crucifixion, ends with a shooting. In the highly exciting interim a tough colonel from the Judge Advocate General's Department (Jack Roseleigh), who arrives by Coast Guard plane in dress blues fresh from a Washington dinner party to solve the first killing, beats the daylights out of the wrong man just because he has it coming to him and, before...
Last New Year's morning, Al Williams had the idea of flying aloft before earthly dawn to see a preview of 1936's first sunrise. Last week he repeated this maneuver. Upon alighting, he sat down in the hangar and typed out what he had seen and felt. The result was a glowing little chapter of air literature. Excerpts...
...Long Island party two nights later, Baroness Eva was tipped off that he was about to take off alone. Bundling into flying togs, she dashed at dawn to Floyd Bennett Field where Pilot Bjorkvall at first would not speak to her. Eventually she cornered him in a hangar from which she presently emerged in tears. Said she. "I'm grounded. ... I expect he wishes to have all the publicity. I'm mad, but I'm a lady and cannot swear...
...giant loudspeaker stood on the roof of a hangar at Mineola, L. I., last week, and radio and sound engineers trooped out to have a look, listen to its monstrous bray. Developed in the Bell Telephone Laboratories, the apparatus resembled a big searchlight. When it and 18 others like it are mounted soon atop a 100-ft. tower, their combined blast will be the loudest sound ever produced...
Built in three years in Luftschiffbau-Zeppelin's hangar on the shores of Lake Constance, the Hindenburg was originally designed by famed Dr. Hugo Eckener for the well-blazed airship trail between Germany and Brazil. Last year, however, Akron's Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., which is closely linked to the German firm, persuaded Dr. Eckener that it would be a smart thing to beat all other nations in the race to establish a North Atlantic airline. Simultaneously, the U. S. Navy offered the use of its great airdock at Lakehurst, idle since the Akron and Macon disasters. To permit...