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...fellows. But the insult to Oregon had not yet been washed off. Up Skinner's Butte the dripping invaders were driven to be set to painting the "O" yellow again. "Slide them down!" yelled an Oregon girl. Dipped in yellow paint, the Staters were sent scooting down the steep 50-ft. sides of the "O" to paint it with the seats of their pants. By nightfall the streets of Eugene were strewn with strips of clothing, eleven motorists had been arrested for driving "with obscured vision.'' bruised, bleeding and half-naked Staters were on the road...
...were last week stocking up on skiing equipment. Meanwhile impatient skiers who wanted to study an example of extraordinary skill in downhill running had only to look at U. S. stock markets. At the start of last week stock prices had already been whistling for eight weeks in a steep slalom around such) formidable obstacles as reports of record farm income for 1937, miscellaneous bullish statistics, encouragement from the Federal Reserve Board and optimistic comments by Governmental bigwigs. Last week, having dropped a breathless 55 points from the summer peak of 190 set by the Dow-Jones industrial averages...
...First reports made it appear that the plateau on top was something like a penthouse garden on the roof of a skyscraper, but such is not the case. Though arduous, the ascent to the top is far from impossible and the worst of the climb is confined to a steep sandstone slope near the top. Yet before the expedition reached its goal, Shiva Temple was touted as a "biological island" whose animal life, if any remained, must have been isolated from the "mainland" since the Ice Ages. These unknown creatures, evolving in their own way for thousands of years, would...
...largest unincorporated town in the U. S., Weirton, W. Va., population 16,000, lies in a fold of the hills about 40 mi. west of Pittsburgh. Its arterial main street bisects the dingy rambling mills of Weirton Steel Co. On narrower streets that wind up the steep hills, Weirton's workers live in frame houses, built against the hillside. Two miles outside Weirton, in dramatic proximity to the inevitable squalor of U. S. industrial life, stands "The Lodge," the comfortable, greystone mansion of Weirton's founder, Ernest Tener Weir, its most conspicuous feature a swimming pool...
...plane that resembled an ordinary biplane. He circled the field, landed normally, few minutes later took off again. While he was in midair, watchers on the ground saw the upper wing begin to revolve like the vanes of a gyro. This time George Townson landed in the steep, space-saving drop characteristic of a gyro, came to earth gently...