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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herr von Opel told them more about rocketing. The perfecters of the idea were two German inventors named Valier and Sander. They had rocketed a racing car (without a driver) as high as 430 m. p. h., he said. They thought, of course, that they could revolutionize aerial locomotion. In the Raab-Katzenstein works at Cassel, they were completing a rocket-drive airplane, the Grasimiecke ("Garden Warbler"). Only a moderate 125 m. p. h. would be attempted with this craft. Later airplanes would be built to rocket beyond the highest flights of motored airplanes, first with laboratory animals aboard...
...affiliated enterprises. So also Conde-Nast, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and the Booths (George G. and Ralph Harman) of Detroit, and Adolph Ochs. Messrs. Patterson and McCormick of the Chicago Tribune and Liberty are close to inherited interests in great corporations, not publishing, but they eschew directorates. Ogden M. Reid of the New York Herald-Tribune and Daniel Rhodes Hanna Jr. of the Cleveland News, like them inheritors of stock interests, were obliged to assume a few directorates. Edward Douglas Stair, seemingly alone of publishers, has deviated...
...lagging courts. Some found doctors who thought the women might not die. No one found a doctor who thought they might be completely cured. Said Katherine Schaub: "Do you think getting married will help me? . . . I don't buy anything. . . . I haven't any money. . . . I'm-worried. . . . When I die I'll only have lilies on my coffin, not roses as I'd like. . . . If I won my $250,000, mightn't I have lots of roses...
Bernard Mannes Baruch, who was an active and great stock market operator before he became President Wilson's War aid, returned to Wall Street last week by renting offices in the neighborhood. He intends to supervise his large investments, not to barter. His son Bernard M. Baruch Jr. recently bought a seat on the New York Exchange...
...deadlock in the fourth period was followed by a long scoring drive from Captain. R. B. Burnett ocC, in the fifth. Then came a burst of speed from the Yale riders, who tallied twice off the mallets of O. M. Wallop and Captain F. C. Baldwin. In the final chukker, Yale tied the count and then drove home the winning goal, Wallop and Baldwin again being responsible for the scores. No substitutions were made throughout the game...