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Unaware of his death, the eight other racers dashed on into the rising sun, fighting rain squalls most of the way. Soon three of them were forced down by minor troubles. The remaining five pressed on, managed to finish. First to swoop down over the 2,500 hardy enthusiasts who braved a Cleveland drizzle was Mister Mulligan, a white, high-wing monoplane designed, owned and flown by meticulous Benjamin Odell ("Benny"') Howard. Jumping from his plane, Pilot Howard stilled congratulations with: "I haven't won yet." He was right. Hard-driving Colonel Turner, Bendix winner...
...Hurley, attorney for A. G. & E., had finally produced Mr. Hopson for the Senate Stock Exchange investigation after Ferdinand Pecora's agents had been vainly hunting him for more than six weeks. Forthwith Chairman O'Connor sped his men off to Leesburg, Va. whence they could swoop down on Belmont, Mr. Hurley's nearby estate, take Mr. Hopson by surprise...
...great, vulture-like birds tearing and gulping the carrion. They were bald eagles, of which only an occasional pair had hitherto been seen in the neighbor hood. Since then Cherryfielders have dropped their ordinary recreations to watch the birds. Twice each day, at sun rise and sunset, the eagles swoop on the stinking feast from their five-foot-wide nests in the trees of Cat's Skin Mountains. Observers have been able to approach within 400 ft. of the birds. A truckman's wife counted 30 at one time through her field glasses. Ornithologist Alfred Otto Gross...
...last week. Represented by each entry were countless technicalities, endless research, details, delays, many a heartbreak. Of the 64 original entries, more than two-thirds had withdrawn. Night before the start Colonel James C. Fitzmaurice, Irish transatlantic flyer, had been disqualified when his U. S.-built Bellanca special, Irish Swoop, proved overweight...
Neville Chamberlain, buttoned into the gold-laced uniform of a privy councilor, rose up before a decoration-studded audience which knew that the pound had just performed a spectacular swoop on 'change and that the unrepentant Labor Party was about to try to put England into 100% Socialism. But, unlike any other of the world's chief Finance Ministers, Mr. Chamberlain had the facts of prosperity on his side. Said...