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...Navy's first accidents in fiscal 1931 occurred last week at Philadelphia?a freak crackup. Three flyers took off in a Martin bomber for parachute tests, with 200-lb. dummies secured in the bomb rack beneath the fuselage. About 100 ft. aloft, the parachute of one of the dummies worked loose, streamed aloft, was jerked full open by the wind. Down snapped the nose of the plane as if an anchor had suddenly been dropped. The short dive wrecked the ship, set it afire, seriously injured Lieut. Commander Oscar W. Erickson and his two assistants...
Nina, police dog of Marietta, Pa., who led her master to the barn where he found Bess, a prize cow, strangling to death with her head caught in a hay rack...
...performs better than its biplane cousin. Equipped with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp motor, supercharged to develop 475 h. p., it cruises at 165 m. p. h., has a high speed well in excess of 200 m. p. h. It carries two machine guns shooting through the propeller, a bomb-rack for a few small "eggs...
...practical for a big family!" remarked King Albert of Belgium, gazing upon the luggage rack of a cheap five-passenger U. S. touring car at the Brussels motor show. King Albert, father of Leopold, Charles Theodore, Marie Jose, drives large Minervas, rides motorcycles...
...underneath the curtain was a rack of beautiful silver hip flasks and the word went round they were filled with Scotch or something and 'help yourself.' A considerable number of the gentlemen there did help themselves. . . . Senator Smoot was present . . . and was as much disgusted with that booze party as I was. I do not want to put any intimation that he took one of those flasks or used liquor because he did not. . . . Senator Gooding [of Idaho, since deceased] did not take one of those hip flasks and neither did I. As to whether the other boys did, they...