Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collision, two planes-those of Lieuts. Smith and Wade-wheeled and turned back toward Scotland. One, the New Orleans of Lieut. Eric Nelson, kept on. Over 500 miles of icy and puckered water, through the confusing mist-banks, the New Orleans flew like a bodiless falcon, invisible, intrepid, swift. At first Lieut. Nelson feared that the course was lost Then he sighted the Billing sley, from which he took his direction, as she was steaming in the line of flight. He followed the same procedure when he sighted the Reid and the Raleigh. At 3:40 in the afternoon...
ANCIENT FIRES-I. A. R. Wylie- Button ($2.00). Just why the hero of this breathless, love-and-adventure, intrigue-and-heroism tale had to be named John Smith remains a mystery. The story starts out in a quiet little English cathedral town, but the pace rapidly grows too swift for that atmosphere, so the locale is blithely transferred to one of those imaginary, comic-opera little countries in Central America...
...real sensations of the Spring has been the unparalleled swift ness with which the output of pig iron has been curtailed. From the depth of the 1921 depression, pig production climbed fairly steadily until May, 1923, when it stood at 3,876,694 tons. From there it slumped to 2,920,982 tons in December last, and then rallied to 3,-466,086 tons last March. April, 1924, however, showed a reduction to 3,233,428 tons, and new figures for last May reveal the astonishing drop to 2,615,110 tons. From an average daily output...
Both England and France are bending every effort to explore their African lands, develop better means of communication and begin the exploitation of the Dark Continent's natural resources on an expanded scale. The swift development of Africa's virgin resources promises the shortest cut to restoring natural wealth and prosperity, and reducing the huge War debts. The key to the process lies in communication and transportation. The British apparently expect to open up the continent from north to south by the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad and its feeder lines, while the French have established lines of communication...
WINE OF FURY?Leigh Rogers? Knopf ($2.50). Against the black and bloody canvas of the Russian Revolution, this story rises sombre and of more than usual interest. The author, a young American who has lived some years in Russia, has caught all the swift horror of those cataclysmic days, has limned his plot against a background that rings true. Rasputin moves evilly through the picture, and Kerensky, Lenin, the dreaded Cheka are delineated with more than a modicum of truth. It is a colorful, kaleidescopic tale, ranging from scenes among the simple, suffering peasants to all the lavish splendor...