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...frantic efforts for circulation included: A spectacle to signalize the Denver auto show: "The next thing on the Denver Post's free amusement program, ladies and gentlemen,* will be a thrilling leap for death by 75 world-famous Autoarabs, the tumbling Gas Anns, the Leaping Lenas of motordom's circus world." Army tanks were obtained to haul many battered motor hulks to an abyss on Castle Mountain. Throngs of Denverites scrambled thither to see the hurtling-into-space, the drop, the crash, the wreckage. A block party on Champa Street (outside the Post offices), with 21 bombs fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Crazytown | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

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