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While the Ruttledge expedition was struggling on the north face of Everest, the Marquess of Clydesdale and Flight Lieutenant D. F. Mclntyre took off in specially built planes with supercharged motors from Purnea, near the Nepal border, and flew a scant 100 ft. over the mountain from the south. In three hours they were back in Purnea (TIME, April...
...defense of the U. S.' are conceptions of those who fail to realize the inherent limitations of aviation and to consider ocean barriers." For the so-called Mitchell plan of unification of the Army & Navy air forces under a separate air department the committee had scant sympathy. Such a plan "would be a serious error, jeopardize the security of the Nation in an emergency, and be an unnecessary burden on the tax-payer...
Although information about Artist Smith is scant the history of most of the sitters is well-known. Reunited once more on the walls of the museum were men who had been friends and enemies. Sir William Phips made his fortune by discovering a wrecked Spanish treasure ship. An incompetent, wasteful Governor of Massachusetts, he was hanging near his friend William Stoughton whom he appointed chief justice of a special tribunal to rid the land of witches. In 1692 Phips, alarmed at Stoughton's wholesale convictions, rescinded his last batch of execution orders. Enraged, Stoughton "refused to sitt upon...
...against $14,300,000 in a like period a year ago. The Dow-Jones average of prime railroad bonds was above 100 for the first time since it was compiled nearly 20 years ago. To silver talk in Washington and rocketing grain markets in Chicago, the stock-market gave scant heed. Behind this paradox of rising business and falling stocks bulked one large fact: the indexes of trade are written in the past tense. By last week John Businessman was ready to admit that the swift pace of the spring advance had definitely slackened. For the stockmarket's sorry...
...stroke which was somewhat higher, while the Leverett and Kirkland shells tussled it out between themselves, see-sawing back and forth, but all the while dropping steadily behind the leaders. At the three- quarter mile mark, the Lowell boat forced the stroke of the Brooks men up from a scant 32 to 34 beats per minute, and both of them began to pull rapidly away from their opponents. But this started the downfall of the Lowell boaters, for the Anglers kept gradually lengthening their lead...