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Thanks. In Chicago, while Mason James Anderson hurtled groundward from a 14th-floor scaffold, Coworker Philip Walsh twirled a rope, lassoed him in midair, deposited him on the sidewalk practically unhurt...
Street lights swung suspended in midair like furry halos. Snub-nosed busses, bunched in convoys, crawled in low gear behind inspectors pacing ahead with lanterns. Three passengers were killed in a suburban train crash; hundreds of fenders were dented...
Taylor, his four student pilots and nine enlisted men (most of them marines) vanished. Horror was added when the first search-rescue plane, a flying boat with a crew of 13, also vanished; a passing ship reported that it had blown up in midair...
...plan was to make the Conciliation Service the heart of the Labor Department, instead of merely a certifying agency for the War Labor Board, as in the past. The first result: WLB, now hanging in midair, lost its chairman, Dr. George W. Taylor, and another public member. Snapped the New York Times: "The board now exists without real powers or prestige ... [its] continued wraithlike existence . . . merely serves to confuse thinking and to clutter up the road . . . [Congress] should end the legal life of the War Labor Board now by an immediate repeal of the Smith-Connally 'Anti-Strike...
...Kamikaze flyer who succeeds or of the flyer who fails? Flak, a great storm of it, for what seems like minutes in a continuous shot, searches after a retreating plane, and at last connects. The plane comes down streaming flame. Another, that seems unhit, comes abruptly to pieces in midair. A heavy suicide plane with one wing gone, hurtles over & over with sickly oafishness as it falls. Another swoops in a long, low slant, just clears the heads of the crew, chops into the water like a spent dart: U.S. sailors, with the bemused fixity of men narrowly escaped from...