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...like this one?a tiny Curtiss Teal amphibian. Dale ("Red") Jackson, co-holder with Forest O'Brine of the world's refueling duration record, was again qualifying for a nickname he earned two years ago? "Flying Fool.". . . Again he pulled the little ship over in a loop, began to straighten out after the dive?when a wing tore off, then another . . . Pilot Jackson died in the wreckage, one hand hooked in the ripcord of his 'chute. Builder Walter Beech was later quoted as saying he had warned Jackson not to stunt the ship which was not designed to withstand violent...
...Democrat whose tongue was like the lash of an Arkansas snake whip. The Caraway manner belied the Caraway mind. He used to slouch indolently in his Senate seat or pace the centre gangway and back aisles, hands dug deep in pockets, shoulders humped, bald head bent. Suddenly he would straighten up to cut in on a debate. Never a maker of long formal speeches he drawled out words that stung his adversaries, bitter words that left scars. Not soon will Truman Newberry or Albert Bacon Fall or Harry Micajah Daugherty or William Scott Vare or Frank Leslie Smith, Republicans...
...application of economic principle to modern economic problems. Every two weeks the society meets in the small common room on Tuesday at 7.30 o'clock and one of the members reads a paper on a topic in his own field. After the reading a discussion is held to straighten out any questions that may arise, and afterwards a criticism of the paper as a whole is given by whatever tutor or professor that has been invited to attend that meeting...
...tournament, was closed by its board of directors, all help was dismissed except two greenskeepers. Ira Fulton, superintendent of Ohio Banks, called together more than 100 frightened country bankers who were hit by the trouble, tried to calm them. From neighboring States, 100 bank examiners set out to help straighten Toledo's muddle. Brokers widely discussed the possible effect on control of Toledo's Willys-Overland Co., many of whose shares were held as collateral by the closed banks. As usual, assurances were made that there would be speedy reorganizations...
...even more startling rumor came over the wires. In an effort to avert revolution, the Cabinet was seriously considering abandoning the principle of private capitalism, and substituting for it a system of state capitalism in which the Government would take control of all private industries, banks, shipping, trade, to straighten out the nation's finances. This would be arriving at practical Communism by the shortest cut possible. Moscow jubilated, hailed the beginning of the world revolution...