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General business continues on its even keel. Stability appears to increase and the weaker departments of trade improve, while the stronger refuse to develop boom conditions. Secretary Mellon's cheerful and optimistic report (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) no doubt expresses the sentiments of the average U. S. business executive...
...plane up so that the engine stalls and they go down in a tail spin, was demonstrated last week. A flyer took the air, put his plane at a dangerous angle, lifted his hands above his head, and let the automatic safety device restore the plane to an even keel...
...Commander Lansdowne's order, Lieutenant Commander C. E. Rosendahl mounted the ladder, made his way down the keel to unload fuel. Fifteen men were left...
...Members of crew called from gondola pit and sent into runway to aid in keep ship on even keel . . . Lightning increasing in intensity. Hope to ride out storm soon. . . Pleasant City seen in distance. . . wind increasing in volume, get chance to?...
...Navy amphibian planes, to see Dog-Driver E-took-a-shoo, a friend, bringing him back to the anchored Bowdoin by air. Next day another start toward Baffin Bay was made, through blinding fog and raging blizzard. In Murchison Sound, the Bowdoin grounded her oaken keel on a rock ledge and stuck fast. The Peary sidled alongside to pass a towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were heaved into the seas of seething slush to lighten the stranded hull. Nearby, a cruising iceberg burst with a dull report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin...