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...woman died after being bitten by a rabid fox. All over a 19-county area, sick and crazy foxes have been seen charging out oi the woods, snapping wildly. In Whitemarsh township, a woman beat one off with a handbag. Near Devon, a boy blew a hawk-call and was charged by three of the beasts. Within the city limits of Philadelphia itself, a rabid fox was killed after it attacked three people...
Died. John Thomas Moore, 65, who, on a windy day in December 1903, lent a hand putting a flying machine on a runway, was the last surviving witness to the Wright brothers' historic first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk; of a self-inflicted shotgun wound; on Colington Island...
Abraham Lincoln, captain of Illinois volunteers in the Black Hawk War of 1832, supported Professional Soldier Scott in the campaign...
...AFLOAT UNTIL DAY. At dawn the ship rolled and tumbled like a half-submerged log, the red paint on her bottom plainly visible. But she floated. And out beyond her, half hidden by the smoking seas, lay a wallowing covey of rescue ships: the U.S. freighters Southland and War hawk, U.S. military transport General A. W. Greely, the Norwegian tanker H. Westfal-Larsen, the German steamship Arion, the British steamship Sherborne...
Since Kitty Hawk, the fear of fire in a fuel tank has haunted airplane pilots and manufacturers. Armor plate and pumping systems for getting inert gas into the waste space in fuel tanks have both been tried. Neither method has ever been completely satisfactory. Last week, at Britain's Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, R.A.F. officers learned that a planned explosion, set off at just the right time, may prove to be the best way to prevent an accidental explosion from getting out of hand...