Word: three
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilmington. For 16 years he has been experimenting and designing such a sea base having in mind ocean way stations for ships and, more lately for transoceanic aircraft. He "sold" his idea to the eminently practical duPont and General Motors financiers. They have provided him one and three quarters million dollars to build his first seadrome. Construction has already started on it. It will be called the Langley after the late Samuel Pierpont Langley, designer of the plane which, except for accidents, might have flown before the Wrights' plane...
...check his calculations. He was right. The survey showed a little plateau just 400 miles from Manhattan and 375 miles from Bermuda, in an almost direct line. It is six miles long by four miles wide and only two miles below sea level, whereas the surrounding ocean is three to four miles deep. The difference in depth means thousands of dollars of savings to Mr. Armstrong and his financiers on the 3½ inch steel cable he is having laid to hold his floating island to its anchors. Those anchors are to be huge round bobbins which will dig into...
...fitted. All the big scenes are movement, and talk makes the shorter ones funnier, helps the action get started. The gags, like Lloyd's lecture on the petunia in the fingerprint studio, are meaningless when separated from the context but uproarious in it. Originally Welcome Danger was three hours long. Lloyd cut it himself at previews in a small town near Los Angeles, marking cuts whenever the audience stopped laughing. Best shots: Lloyd's account of his love-affair with a girl whose picture he obtained from a photomaton machine that functioned faultily; the fight with the dope...
...Collinsville, Ill., a contest was held on "Homecoming Day" to find the biggest liar in Southern Illinois. A $20 gold piece was awarded one Ernestine Smith, editress of the Columbia (Illinois) Star. The lie: her auto fell into a mudhole, sank in three weeks to Singapore, China...
...Atlantic City, Patrolman Clifton Mann fired three shots at an injured dog. The first hit the right leg of one Clarence Beckett, railroad watchman. The second hit the dog, failed to kill it. The third hit the right leg of one Paul Robbins, coal and ice merchant. A motorcycle policeman arrived, shot...