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...young men climbed into the open cockpit of a Travelair biplane one day last week at Oakland Municipal Airport. After a minute or so the propeller began to turn. The plane started down the runway, gathered speed, soared into the air, its propeller beating a loud tattoo but without any noise of engine exhaust. After circling the airport at 1,000 ft. for about 15 minutes the plane glided to a landing and out jumped the two young men, grinning broadly. Thus unpretentiously, aeronautic history was made. For the first time, a steam-powered airplane had flown...
...taxicab for shelter. The driver takes her to his room. But he does not trust pick-ups. Takes his money out of the bureau ready to go to a friend's room for the night. Takes another look at her. Thinks she is pretty nice. Heavy rain drops tattoo the window panes...
...Treasury. Every bank in the land- 18,000 of them- had been shut tight by Presidential proclamation (TIME, March 13). For practical purposes the U. S. was off the gold standard. The nation's industries were at a standstill. The public pulse was beating a panicky tattoo. The Federal Government was so bowed with accumulated deficits as to threaten national credit. Ahead lay only economic uncertainty. If ever a Secretary of the Treasury started from scratch, it was Mr. Woodin last week...
...Negro folk opera by Shirley Graham, graduate of Howard University, postgraduate student at Oberlin. Composer Graham, 25, daughter of a Negro missionary, had keyed her music to the primitive chants, the spirituals and the modern jazz rhythms of her race. Tom-Tom's costumes, shields and tattoo marks had been designed by 19 Cleveland Negro artists. From London had come deep-voiced Jules Bledsoe, original "Ol' Man River" singer in Show Boat, to sing the part of the Voodoo Man. On a windy, cloudy night last week, second night in Cleveland's open air opera season, nearly...
Bounding to his feet Witness Hitler yelled 'That's a lie! Were such things true I'd shoot myself." Clenching his fists. pounding a tattoo on the courtroom table he wound up screaming: "I won't be insulted! I could not justify myself before my millions of followers if I stood for this! I will no longer answer these Jew lawyers! Not another question, though I will answer anything asked by the Court...