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Somehow, deep under water, he and his aircraft parted company. He pulled the strings to inflate his Mae West, found himself buoyed upwards. Then he bumped into the slimy underside of the carrier, some 30 feet under water. In a moment more he was being churned in the Niagara of the carrier's wake; somehow he had hurtled past the propellers' blades...
Odor of Sanctity. In Niagara Falls, Ont., the County Court demanded some new Bibles when a witness refused to kiss one, complained that it "smelled like a distillery...
Charles M. Hall, of Niagara Falls, New York, is the founder of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, as far as finances are concerned. He set up a fund under his will, and the institute was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts in 1928, in order to administer the trust...
There, with his bride, he admired rows of his favorite Hellcat fighter planes (see BUSINESS), like a man staring at Niagara Falls. But he was cagey when a newsman asked what he had named his own plane: "I refuse to say for purposes of security." Then, beaming: "Marital security." And in France a 24-year-old lieutenant named Clarence E. Coggins became a hero in an unorthodox way: he got captured...
...biggest concrete structure (biggest: Grand Coulee Dam). Shasta is the highest overflow-type dam in the world (602 ft.). It is also California's tallest structure. When Shasta's reservoir fills (probably in 1946), water pouring over the center spillway will fall three times as far as Niagara. For California, Shasta Dam will...