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...minutes, and it takes more than $1.30 to inflate one of our bags. I have them from 60 ft. to 95 ft. The larger will carry two riders, usually a man and a woman. We have done all stunts mentioned and a great many others. Our "stove pipe" is a steel drum at least 24 in. in diameter. We frequently use an inflator. Also we seldom use poles any more. We use a gin pole in the inside till the bag is selfsupporting. We have put on a great many ascensions, playing large fairs and expositions. We played the Tennessee...
...Goodyear for the Army, and being test-flown prior to her maiden flight to her station at Langley Field. Va. The TC-13 is 200 ft. long. Beneath her belly she carries a 40-ft. control car equipped with four folding bunks, and a galley containing an electric stove and electric coffee urn. A crew of six could be accommodated for a four or five-day patrol flight. There are two 375-h.p. engines for propulsion, three auxiliary engines for operation of equipment. One of the three generates current for the radio when the ship is resting on land...
...Kalama, Wash., Ray Edwards got drunk, drove to the home of L. P. Brown, punched Brown, went to jail, tore up beds, wrecked the stove, ripped out electric fixtures, knocked out the marshal with a stove lid, set the jail afire...
...different forward. A huge wave had smashed into the forecastle deckhouse and buried it under tons of water. Two cooks were working in the crew's galley when the wave struck. It stove in the door, ripped open a steel bulkhead, and as the cooks crouched by the wall drove the stove and two half-ton boilers straight through the rear bulkhead. Seaman H. J. Johnston of Portsmouth was in the alleyway. Fifteen minutes later when the water had ebbed enough for an officer and a quartermaster to wade in, Seaman Johnston was found dead, smashed against the wall...
Died. Howard James Cunningham, 41, president of Chicago's Green, Fulton, Cunningham advertising agency; by his own hand (pistol); in Chicago. Accounts: Nash Motor, Kalamazoo Stove...