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...streaming from the field's big hangar. Before Miami's fire department could get into action the hangar was a furnace, airplane gas tanks began to pop. Soon the red-hot roof fell. When dawn broke, a cloud of smoke a mile in diameter covered a heap of debris, the charred skeletons of 22 private planes valued at $508,000. Among them were an Autogiro, taxiplane and big machines belonging to Gar Wood, James Mattern, Alexander P. de Seversky...
...resigned to return to private practice. In so doing, he was following a well-established precedent which has given SEC about the highest rate of personnel turnover in the Government. Reasons for this are twofold: 1) though SEC is full of career men, only a few top-of-the-heap jobs pay an adequate salary; 2) SEC is also full of bright young lawyers who are glad to starve for a year or two in order to get an insight into SEC procedure which makes it easy to land a good berth in Wall Street...
...driving instruction. But soon Mr. Yordan brought the car to a stop within the practice area on Commonwealth Avenue and suggested that Bernice, with whom the Vagabond was just becoming acquainted, take the helm--or one of them. There was a major reshuffling as Bernice disengaged herself from the heap of girlhood, hooked her heel in the Vagabond's cuff and catapulted into the front seat, to replace Mary who was already nosing down for a landing...
Another phase of the intramural sports program came to an end yesterday, with the unbeaten deacons firmly ensconced on the top of the natatorial heap, closely followed by the Elephants, who have only one black mark against them...
...funny thing about battleships," he added, is that they "are sent to the scrap heap without ever firing a shot. But that's the proper function of a battleship...