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Over Portland, Ore. one day last week buzzed a trim two-motored airplane that outwardly looked like any other U. S. aircraft, but inwardly was as different as a hickory basket from a ship's hull. For while the skeleton of other planes is built up of longitudinal braces, bulkheads and stringers, the framework of this Greenwood-Yates Geodetic Bi-Craft is woven of spruce strips. It resembles nothing more than a woven basket covered with fabric to keep out the breeze, powered with two 50-h.p. engines to pull it through the air. Its structure is called geodetic...
...Willard and Doughty have been serving quite consistently as counters, while Lewis, Ferris, and Halstead have been consistently playing in the first string. Childs, Downes, and Halstead have been consistently playing in the first string. Childs, Downes, and Wilcox have seen action as substitutes and may well be the skeleton of next year's ton. Of the Seniors, Ralph Livingston and Hammond have been the mainstays...
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...Washington, D. C. the U. S. Treasury Department's Procurement Division sought "one male human skeleton, with bones of a single individual." Specifications: removable arms, legs, feet, skull, one removable hand, one horizontal skull cut. Purpose: exhibition at the Marine Hospital, St. Louis...
...UNIVERSITY--The same whitewashed British Lancers--this time in the persons of Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Victor McLaglen; the same vicious tribesmen, now worshippers of the goddess of blood; the same melodramatic story--these form the skeleton of "Gunga Din," Hollywood's latest version of "The Lives of A Bengal Lancer." Yet about this skeleton has been built the flesh of humor, and into the whole has been breathed the breath of life by fast-paced direction and some excellent acting by the principals. Novelty; too, enters, for there is an interesting portrayal by Sam Jaffe of Kipling...