Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago Rumrunner James Horace Alderman killed two coast guardsmen in Florida. Last week President HooVer was asked to commute Alderman's death sentence to life imprisonment. This he declined...
...pilots climbing up into heated cabins or cockpits and talking to somebody on the ground over the radiophone." Thus re-pined E. Hamilton Lee, 37, who flew the first experimental air mail routes for the Government eleven years ago. Planes were relatively primitive then, routes unmarked, every trip a life's risk. Reason for Senior Pilot Lee's last week's thought: retrospection. He had just completed 1,000,000 miles of flying. He works for Boeing Air Transport, most of whose pilots were previously in the difficult Air Mail Service...
...City. Elevator speeds vary from 700 ft. to 1,000 ft. per minute. There are 28,104 elevators in Manhattan. Chances are 218,000,000 to 1 that an elevator-passenger will be alive at the end of a trip. Buildings with most elevators are: Equitable, 59; New York Life, 38; New York Central and Graybar, 37 each. Tall Woolworth has only 30. Manhattan had 105 elevator accidents last year. Many of these involved not elevators but careless persons falling down the shafts...
...months last week came flocking in. The normal report showed an increase over the first six months of 1928. Steel was the banner industry, with almost every company reporting a peacetime record. Strong also were the utilities. Coal, leather, shoes, machinery and various other of the unspectacular necessities of life were weak. Among many corporations reporting their earnings, the following were of particular interest or importance...
David Burbank, 25, nephew of the late great Luther Burbank, was in an automobile accident near East Gloucester, Me., pronounced dead, taken to an undertaker. En route signs of life were noticed. He was rushed to hospital, given a chance for recovery...