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...Tanforan Track. He decided there was money to be made in exhibition flying. For $2,000 he picked up a flimsy biplane built by a Kansas City doctor, took a Swiss aviator as partner. The Swiss looked once, briefly, at the biplane and vanished. Rather than see the machine rot on its wheels, Gates started the engine one day, mounted the rickety seat, started taxiing about the field just for the fun of "grass-cutting.'' To his astonishment the plane rose some 20 ft. Hastily Gates shoved a lever, landed with a bang. On the strength of that...
...contemporary Russian novel practically propaganda-less. To the benefits of Soviet industrialization he does not point so much as to its all-too-human obstacles and overwhelming material work. Yet it is still clear that in Russia one must swim with the Soviet river, or be left to rot along its banks...
...takes the trouble to study the list of prizes open for competition. Many of the subjects involved fall annually to interest even as many as one competitor, with the result that the prize money is annually turned back into the principal account to rot some more...
...head of any cast served to attract even anxious mothers and conservative fathers, with their families, to the theatre districts of the country. And, indeed, the refreshing decency of productions like "Sally", for example, with its well-remembered musical score, was a welcome departure from the customary rot which American audiences usually patronize...
...Chadbourne agreement exempts "present crops" from limitation, and contended that since their crop contracts are made 14 months in advance, limitation of the Java crop would not begin until the spring harvest of 1933. Cubans, who contend that even current standing crops are pledged to be left standing to rot in the fields, protested quietly and firmly last week, until the International Sugar Council adjourned for Christmas...