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...officeworkers in Manhattan first glimpsed the Hindenburg's silvery nose. A tail wind sped her on to New Jersey. On a Newark roof a garage mechanic stepped backward to get a better view, crashed through a skylight to his death. The big ship floated over Philadelphia, returned to Lakehurst...
Died. Woodford Fitch ("Wood") Axton, 63, president of Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co., largest independent tobacco company in the world, maker of Spuds, 10? cigarets (Twenty Grand) & smoking tobacco (White Mule, Old Loyalty); of heart disease; at Wildwood, near Skylight, Ky. A thoroughly enlightened capitalist, he limited his salary to $10,000 a year, unionized his plant, boasted he had fought the ''tobacco trust" and never been beaten. His company's net sales were $23,704,029 in 1933, $28,551,842 last year. He raised blooded stock, owned Betsy Hopeful, "the $42,500 wonder cow," and Hank...
...schoolchildren could be psychoanalyzed, had ordered analysis for every pupil who seemed to his teachers abnormal or subnormal in any way. Early last week two small boys heard whimpering sounds in a deserted ice house in a poor district of Chicago. Crawling through a broken skylight they came upon a 2½-year-old girl huddled on a pile of debris, her naked body black with frostbite. The boys whispered excitedly. Then an older boy, bold-eyed and sturdy in long pants, entered the ice house. "Scram, you!" he growled. The small boys ran off to the police...
...girl who rode a bicycle into the Adams House Dining Hall on Saturday, during the supper hour, in full blaze of the electric skylight...
...bailed out with parachutes, left their ships to rocket wildly to earth. A notable fall in this rain came in 1919 when the airship Wing foot Express burst into flames while flying over Chicago's business district. The two pilots parachuted away. The Wingfoot Express crashed through the skylight of Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, killing 13 bank employes. Much more frequent are accidents in which the pilot of a plane disabled over the city has crashed with his ship...