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...small, wiry, grey-haired millionaire drove a leaping spray-plumed power boat up and down Indian Creek in Florida a little more than a week ago at the average speed of 93.123 m. p. h. The achievement broke two world's records: the salt water mark of 80.567 miles, set by the same man, and the fresh water mark of 92.834 set by his brother last summer in Detroit. The man was Garfield Wood, Gar Wood for short, and this was his answer to the disappointing race of a fortnight ago, won on points by the British speedfiend...
There were many possible reasons for the massacre but only one motive-jungle justice. Chief Gangster Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone's West Side mob was under suspicion. Tony Lombardo, Capone's good friend, wilted last summer under a spray of bullets at Madison and Dearborn Streets (TIME, Sept. 17). And a shipment of Canadian whiskey from Detroit's "Purple Gang" to Capone was hijacked last fortnight, presumably by Moran...
...Sled. Of the various Sea Sleds (made by the Sea Sled Corp., Manhattan), Model 18 attracted the most attention. With their square bows and inverted-V bottoms,* the Sea Sleds keep their noses well out of the water, keep their passen gers free from flying spray. Model 18 is equipped with a demountable sliding cabin - a one-man top arrangement designed to combine the advantages of an open and of a cabin boat. It is equipped with toilet and kitchenette and, says its catalog description...
...beneficial in epilepsy, nervous disease of obscure causes. So the two learned men tried to make the poor venomous fool angry and despatch his poison at a piece of glass. Perhaps wiser than most snakes, perhaps as lazy as most, the cobra spewed forth only a thin and useless spray. The two wise men felt foolish...
...steel, the spray leapt...