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...take-off before the hangars, came to a dead stop within a few yards, just as a Paris-London passenger plane thundered down a 500-yard take-off for an unpremeditated, complimentary contrast. "Bravo! bravo!" shouted the crowd, which closed in upon this curiosity. Thirty-year-old, blond, Spanish inventor Juan de la Cierva explained that though he had experimented with airplanes since he was 15, it was the first time he had ever made a long cross country flight in any type of plane. Yes, he had flown from London. No, his plane was, not strictly speaking, a heliocopter...
Herr Fritz von Opel, inventor of the famed rocket auto, has been dogged by bad luck...
...Inventor von Opel had placed a cat in his rocket car (TIME, June 4). He wished to test the resistance of a living organism to high speed. But the car never attained high speed. Instead it exploded. The cat was never found...
Hence the cat lovers' ire, the catting of Inventor von Opel, at a mass indignation meeting in Berlin of German Friends of Cats...
...Baltimore quarantine 16 stowaways cringed, and no less than 400 rats scuttled, in hidden places of the S. S. Steel Inventor, in last week from Brazil. Health inspectors were about to fumigate her. The crew fastened doors and hatches. All was quiet below. The boat rocked a little; chains scraped; water tattled against the hull. Then a sweetish odor came upon the hidden men, like the taste of peach stone kernels. Seven of them collapsed, limply, dead from the hydrocyanic acid gas used for the fumigation...