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...were?the signals were very faint?were there, safe, in a fur-trader's comfortable cabin. They had reached Point Barrow the day of their last departure from Fairbanks, after a hairbreadth escape in the cloud-hung Endicott Mountains. Heavy-laden, the monoplane Alaskan had not been able to soar over the 10,000-foot peaks this time. Wilkins, his right arm fractured, had sat grimly by in the cockpit while Eielson felt his way between peaks at 9,000 feet. Once, a mountainside had rushed out of the fog so close in front that the plane's right landing...
...Servaise. Both men are out to marry money, of which Mary has little. A Wyoming interlude that might have been written by Elinor Glyn in collaboration with Harold Bell Wright and a Campfire Girl, eliminates Millar?and Mary's chastity. When she finally marries André, whose constancy does not soar above the average for Latins, she discovers the comfort resident in observing the adage about glass houses and stone-flinging...
...coal-seamed Alleghanies and factory-dotted coastal plains. It is a tedious train trip; wise people take the sleeper. By automobile it is more pleasant; the roads are excellent and through the Pennsylvania mountains there are gorgeous views. But best of all is to fly it. Then you can soar above the farmlands, circle and behold the cities like great wens on the face of nature, swoop up and over the mountains, dallying if you like on the long downward slant to peer off east to the continent's end and the long Atlantic ground swell. Last week...
...stock market, led by the motor shares, had continued to soar for months and a reaction was obviously overdue. In such a situation, as has often been proved, the crash in prices can be and usually is attributed to almost any event whether it has any close bearing on the stock market or not. In this particular case it was raising of the rediscount rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 3½% to 4%-a step occasioned by purely local conditions. Speculators in stocks, dealing in a market which had grown top-heavy of its own accord...
Untroubled by mundane developments, the Sherifian Escadrille, composed of U. S. airmen, continued to soar into the Moroccan ether and drop therefrom tons of bombs...