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Delaware River. Up and down the Philadelphia estuary, Lieutenants Kyle and Schildauer last week drove the PN9 from 10:22 one morning to 2:58 the next afternoon-a total of 28 hr., 36 min., making about 2,300 miles. Their faces badly wind-bitten, the crew . had been so deafened by the roar of engines they could hardly hear the eager greetings when they landed. They had completed the test for the Honolulu trip...
...Page 16 in the Apr. 20 issue of TIME, you refer to "Getting the wind up" as puzzling to the lexicographers. I think 1 can throw some light upon the origin of the term, for it is part of a story that went around, especially in the ranks of the Royal Fusiliers. The story is somewhat as fellows...
Declaring the Mayor's reputation, private life, and aims are "tossed about like leaves in an autumn wind," John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York, attacks the interests and defends his own regime in the following special article to the Crimson on the subject of "College Men in Politics...
...Mayor is denied the same protection which is accorded to other citizens. His reputation, his private life, and his official aims and purposes are often tossed about like leaves in an autumn wind. There is no exaggeration in that statement...
...weigh more than 1,000 pounds. The Sikorsky twin Liberty biplane, at any rate, had no difficulty in carrying two baby grands securely lashed to the floor of the cabin from Roosevelt Field, L. I., to Boiling Field, Washington, D. C., covering the 225 miles in a strong head wind in 2 hours, 45 minutes...