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...ground at full flying speed, switches on, throttles open, stabilizer set for cruising, landing gear retracted. The gasoline fire which consumed most of the plane destroyed most of the evidence. But tools and other metal parts untouched by the flames showed marks of extreme local heat and partial melting. And the bodies of six victims found outside the machine, likewise untouched by flames, showed typical electrical burns on all parts in contact with the plane's metallic chairs. Said KLM's report: "The experts came to the conclusion that the machine had been struck by a heavy flash...
...true meaning of virtue was made manifest in a blaze of light when he received his corrected History 1 midyear. To the bottom of the essay question, which had been crossed and checked and scribbled over by the mentor, was appended the following generous award: "One point for partial neatness...
Died, John Muir, 87, Manhattan stock broker, pioneer specialist in "odd lot" sales (less than 100 shares) of securities; in Flushing, N. Y. Called the "Odd Lot King," Broker Muir was an early advocate of "baby bonds," of the partial payment plan which the U. S. Government adopted in selling Liberty Bonds...
...discretion and subjected to "irreparable sterilization." Reassuring German tourist agents at once explained that a foreigner sentenced to be sterilized would instead probably be deported by the Government. Last week the total number of Germans sterilized in the two years of Nazidom remained a State secret, but addition of partial figures released from time to time proved a sterile total of well over...
...managers of a burlesque show were on trial charged with lewdly producing a Hawaiian dance number. As he freed the group, the magistrate declared: "By common acceptance a Hawaiian dance is not an indecent performance. The arresting officer testified that the dance did not arouse lecherous desires. Nudity, partial or complete, is not in itself lewd...