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...that time the Loyalist air force consisted largely of a formidable collection of antiquated fighting planes - old Breguets, built in 1921, a Dewoitine, a Hawker Fury, a Gipsy Dragon - which Malraux had purchased for the Government. There was a twin-engined, high-wing Potez which carried a crew of five and in which Malraux flew as copilot. There was a modern, fast Boeing, useful only as a threat be cause the machine gun could not be synchronized to fire through the propeller. No match for Franco's air force, Malraux's fliers dodged behind clouds, avoided combat...
Johnny is let out by and by. His girl has married a Wartime malingerer who made a fortune from laxative water. Simple, defeated but undismayed, Johnny becomes a sidewalk hawker. "Toys," he cries. "Toys. Toys for good little girls and boys." He sings a melancholy little song about his faith in man's ultimate goodness, walks away up a long street...
...Wildfowlers since earliest times have for ever bewailed the disappearance of the good old days. 'Fowling,' they say, 'is not what it was, and probably never will be again.' Ever since Colonel Hawker wrote so scathingly of the Milf ord snobs -that unrivalled garrison of tit-shooters and shore-poppers, writers would have us be lieve that the sport has been on the down grade. But I believe this to be a fallacy...
Favored by the ladies and their boys as leading aircraft-armaments stocks are Rolls-Royce, Fairey and Hawker-Siddeley. Last week Rolls-Royce was so preoccupied with producing aircraft engines that swank motorists eager to plank down ?1,850 ($9,250) for the new 12-cylinder Rolls-Royce "Phantom III" were told that they cannot expect delivery before February...
...suits." Within a year they had opened an office in New York and by 1869 had moved their shop from Fitchburg to Brooklyn and were making patterns for women's clothes as well. The patterns were sold through agents. One of these, John W. Wilder, an aggressive and imaginative hawker, joined the firm with a brilliant idea. He wanted Butterick to make the masses pattern-conscious with a fashion magazine. Result was Metropolitan, founded in 1869, later changed to Delineator. By 1871 the firm was selling 6,000,000 patterns annually. Ten years later aggressive Salesman Wilder reorganized the company...