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...jump. Next day, mechanics achieved a flurry of headlines by discovering "a potential disaster threat" in faulty lubrication of the propeller bearings. That fixed Flyer Amelia climbed aboard with two of her crew to take off for the 1,940 mi. hop to Howland Island. Down the ong concrete runway of Luke Field the ship shot at 60 m.p.h. Suddenly the left tire blew out. Lurching, the plane rumpled its landing gear, careened 1,000 ft.. on its bottom in a spray of sparks while he propellers knotted like pretzels. With sirens screaming, ambulances dashed he wreck just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Mourning Becomes Electro, | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

Huey Long climaxed the municipal primary campaign with an hysterical radio tirade against his opponents, finally bursting into parodied song: Anti-Long, little bogy, anti-Long, little bogy, anti-Lo-o-o-ong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: First Down | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...lost treasure of the Armada galleon Florencia. On Oak Island, Nova Scotia, a treasure was actually discovered in a 153-ft. shaft which, promptly flooded, defied all attempts to drain it. Last fortnight Inventor Simon Lake was in the newspapers with an elaborate plan and a ong steel tube to salvage the millions hat went down in the purser's strong room in the Lusitania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pieces of Eight | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAPOOSES SEEK CRIMSON SCALP | 11/1/1930 | See Source »

Bears, like most wild animals, may be frightened away by a noise. Bears will fight only when they think they are cornered. Correct procedure for an unarmed man grounded by an unwounded bear is to lie still. The bear will cuff and bite only as ong as his victim resists. Alaskans tell the story of a woman, attacked by a bear, who fainted, received not a scratch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Last of the Brownies? | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

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