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...Breton one morning last week. Passengers lined the rail, crowded about a roped enclosure on the sundeck to watch a sturdy monoplane mounted on a sort of sled and turntable between the two smokestacks. Pilot Joachim Blankenburg waved a signal from the cockpit, a seaman on deck threw a lever and the sled shot to the edge of the deck, flinging the seaplane out over the water at 80 m. p. h. The plane rose rapidly, circled the Euro pa in salute, vanished into the west with mail for the U. S. and Canada...
...have set the dial for a certain volume, you may vary the volume further and more finely by pressing the left pedal. The right (sustaining) pedal is like that of a standard piano, will hold a tone until it dies away. A second row of dampers, controlled by a lever, makes the tone sound like that of a reed organ...
Dancer Ann Pennington started suit for $100.000 against Lever Bros. Co. ("Lux" soap) and J. Walter Thompson Co. (advertising) for exploiting her age in an advertisement, thus: "I really am 39 years old. I never mind telling my age. As long as a woman doesn't look old, I don't see why birthdays should worry her. . . ." In Who's Who in the Theatre, dimple-kneed Dancer Pennington states that she was born...
...Banging Bombs, High over Chesapeake Bay one day last week, in an Army bomber from Langley Field, Va., Capt. Robert G. Breene and Major Charles A. French were dropping explosive "eggs" into the water. Once when Major French pulled the release lever, no bomb left the ship; he yanked again. Then the officers looked overside, were horrified to see the last two bombs swinging beneath the fuselage, caught in a tangle of stray wires, banging against one another. Instantly Pilot Breene zoomed his plane upward, looped, spun, dove, climbed again in an effort to shake free the bombs. They still...
...Ford motor switch on the instrument board, presses his heel on an ordinary Ford starter button, pulls out a Ford choke rod, shifts his feet to-instead of a rudder bar-a set of pedals like the old Ford transmission pedals, yanks with his left hand a Ford brake lever that locks both wheels, or brakes either one for ground-steering. Because the engine and propeller are far separated from the cabin, it is claimed that noise in flight is no greater, to the occupants, than that of an automobile going 60 m. p. h. over smooth roads. The claim...