Word: nettleton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bird differs from the Iowa reproduction principally in having a feathered tail instead of the cottontail effect, the coloring is apparently somewhat more uniform and there are slight differences above the eyes. Why then can Iowa claim "the only Stuffed replica in the world of the dodo?". . . L. L. NETTLETON Pittsburgh, Pa. There is also a reconstructed dodo in the American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan. The Iowa Museum, however, lays claim to possessing the first U. S.-made dodo. The other two replicas- were made in London...
Caterpillar Jr. Within 100-mi, of Los Angeles, his goal for a "junior transcontinental speed record,"* Gerald Nettleton. 20, of Toledo, Ohio, was hopelessly in the "soup." Floundering at 10,000 ft. in rain, fog and snow he "couldn't see ten feet ahead"; but he knew he was near the Cuyamaca Mts. To try a blind landing would be insane. The instruments froze; the magneto began to misbehave. Pilot Nettleton made his decision. He leveled off, throttled down, cut his switch, rolled out the door, waited and pulled his ripcord. Pilot Nettleton landed near a ranch-house...
...Pilot Nettleton had taken off from Newark Airport nine days earlier. For "junior" and "women's" speed records, only flying time is counted. Present east-west junior record of 24 hr. 2 min. was made by Stanley Boynton in six days...
...course," said a London member of the C. M. S., "It is quite possible that the finger said to have been cut from Miss Nettleton's hand was not hers. It is a fairly common trick on the part of Chinese outlaws to send a finger or perhaps an ear. It is seldom taken from the person to be ransomed...
...Miss Nettleton's finger was not the only outrage to British women in China last week. Mrs. A. R. J. Herne, wife of a British engineer of the Tientsin-Pukow railway, was sleeping in their house on the outskirts of Nanking some distance from her husband's bedroom. A Nationalist soldier on a rampage broke into her bed room, stabbed her with his bayonet, making the third attack unfortunate Mrs. Hearne has been subjected to since she went to live in China. "If brigand threats of further outrages are carried out," he warned the Nationalist Government, "the result...