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...better judgment go hang when pretty Trix urged him, and embezzled his library's funds to get some easy money. That time he and everyone else got away with it. But 1921 was a different story: cotton slumped, stocks crashed, mills went bankrupt. Everyone had to haul in his kite. Trix, who had cometted to London as a musicomedy star, went home and contented herself with a soberer Harry. Speculator Samuel took to pushing a cart, selling hot potatoes. Houghtons were sold up, moved away. As Author Hodson brings down a slow curtain on his characters, he leaves them sadder...
...fisherman put his back into his fight with the fish. A fresh squid is sewed onto the hook and sometimes a wooden lure is trolled ahead of it to rouse the broadbill's interest. To take the line out of the wake of the boat a kite is often rigged to it and flown off the quarter. The fish are sighted when their fins and tails clip the water's surface. Technique then is to drag your bait before the fish. As in bass fishing, it is ruinous to try to set your hook at. the first strike...
...year-old cousin of famed Pilot Jimmy Doolittle, climbed into a pit in the crab's back and flew it away. Around & around the airport he flew, as fast as 97 m.p.h. (although the motor was only 37 h.p.), flipping and diving the weird machine like a kite in a gusty sky. Finally he brought it down, sinking gently to a landing of only 23 m.p.h. First to congratulate Pilot Doolittle was a South Bend foot doctor named Cloyd Lawrence Snyder, inventor of the machine which he had named the ARUP ("air" and "up"). Doolittle had flown it some...
Weatherman Colton's crash made citizens conscious of a new profession. Before airplanes, kites and balloons took weather recording instruments aloft in out-of-the-way places. But kites require wind, balloons not too much wind; both are unusable in bad weather; both have been scrapped except for one kite-station in Ellendale, N. Dak. In July 1931, Weather Bureau stations in Chicago, Cleveland and Dallas let the first U. S. contracts to aviators for weather observation. Omaha and Atlanta have been added to the list. A weather plane goes up once a week in Fairbanks, Alaska...
...went up in a captive fire-balloon in October 1783. "First man to fly in a powered heavier-than-air craft" was, as every schoolboy knows, Orville Wright along the beach at Kitty Hawk, N. C. in 1903. Alberto Santos-Dumont first got off the ground with a box-kite type of powered machine in France three years later, rose 20 ft., went 720 ft. in 21 sec. His machine added nothing to plane construction but his cheerful survival of many a crash encouraged European air daring...