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...Before eight, one morning, secret service men leapt from the path of an automobile that whizzed up the driveway. Secretary of Commerce Hoover got out; conferred hastily with the President on farm relief; offered plans (which were approved) for extensive Governmental promotion of civil aeronautics under the recent air legislation; whizzed down the driveway, took a train to California, presumably to aid his friend Senator Shortridge, whose renomination Senator Hiram Johnson is opposing...
...summer of 1926 may come to be chronicled in histories as the beginning of an era when the U. S. actually leapt into the air, stayed there. No more sporadic gestures like the Shenandoah, the Hawaiian flights, but real laws, appropriations, Cabinet officers, potent metal planes, transcontinental airways mark the summer. Auspicious events...
...Britisher in a blue suit and a wide-brimmed panama hat tore screaming along the ship's rail- leapt, climbed, jostled dignified bankers, evaded pursuit. "Mon-key!" "Monkey!" screamed passengers. "MONKEY!" The Hon. John Jacob Astor ran to his mother, clambered into her lap. He is aged seven. Last week photographers snapped busily Lady Nancy Astor, onetime Virginia beauty, first woman member of the British Parliament, here on her second U. S. visit. She was "traveling incognito," she said, looking admiringly at her 17-year-old Phyllis, who did look well. Michael, aged ten, shuffled against the Hon. John...
...Moines, the track was sodden. They soaked the cinders in gasoline and touched a match, but it rained again. Undiscouraged, Roland Locke of the University of Nebraska, "fastest U. S. sprinter," leapt from his mark and fled to a tape 100 yards away in what the second-splitting watches said was 9.5 sec.?a magical tenth of a second less than 100 yards have ever officially been run. But there had been a brusque north wind at Locke's back. The record was doubtful. The other national feature of the meet: obliging Pole-vaulter Charles Hoff of Norway soared...
...Scotch-English farmer of Lancaster, Mass. Crossed in love in his twenties, he turned his back upon the girl and went to California, where he hired himself out to farmers until able to acquire land of his own at Santa Rosa. In 1881, his small nursery business leapt to great proportions when a banker asked, in the spring, to have 20,000 prune trees for fall planting. Young Burbank bought almond seeds, sprouted them, grafted prune buds to the sprouts and delivered 20,000 prune shoots for the banker's fall planting - thus fulfilling an unprecedented order that other...