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Hanging by one hand to the corner of a tarpaulin and swinging over this abyss with kicking legs was a little girl. She and two others had been playing on top of the hatch -the other two had been killed. I saw a soldier pull her to safety, and she was eventually saved...
Scarring the green breast of one of the fields on Motormaker Henry Ford's "Fairlane" estate near Detroit is a 60-foot plowed furrow. Around it Ford workmen have built a fence. Over it they have laid a tarpaulin. Why this has been done no Ford employe knows for sure, but most could hazard a sound guess: the furrow is to be preserved for posterity to look at; it will be included in the intriguing mass of Ford memorabilia which includes Luther Burbank's shovel (thrust into a block of concrete), a reproduction of the hole...
...canvas entitled The Pale Rider. Apparently having listened to much talk about surrealism, Artist Dickinson did a picture of a morose young woman in a red dress seated on a falling, pedestal by a table loaded with books. A Negro in a grey flannel shirt is pulling a heavy tarpaulin over the whole composition while three white roses fall from the sky. The Pale Rider is disappearing into the sunset. Since the whole is painted with the stodgy technique of a bank president's portrait, the effect is as surprising as would be the sight of Herbert Hoover blowing...
Attached to the steamer's stern is an enormous tarpaulin apron criss-crossed by wooden laths, called a drag-sail. When the steamer is at rest, or barely making headway, the drag-sail trails below the surface. There it lies while the plane taxies up to the steamer's stern. As soon as the plane is in position, the Westphalen picks up speed, with the plane taxiing after her. The towing force lifts the drag-sail to the surface where it smooths the water, makes a floor for the plane. Winches are brought into play and presently plane...
...midway between Africa and South America, the Westphalen was to drop anchor and remain indefinitely as a way station for transoceanic aircraft. Onetime freight steamer of the North German Lloyd, the Westphalen has been rebuilt for seadrome purposes. Most ingenious device is the landing apron, an enormous sheet of tarpaulin criss-crossed by wooden laths. The apron trails in the water from the steamer's stern. A seaplane or amphibian alighting at the station taxies up the apron to be hoisted aboard- apron and all. For taking off there are catapults on the Westphalen's deck. Also...