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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Niagara Falls, N. Y...
...feet, the soaring plane skirted a cumulus cloud, was instantly sucked up into it by powerful air currents. Airman Udo Fischer got panicky. At 5,000 feet he bailed out. Minutes later he landed in a farmer's field near Big Flats, N. Y., unhurt but out of the running for the Elmira Soaring Contest's annual $1,500 trophy...
...editor. Before that he was handyman in his father's Texas feed store, a reporter on Texas and Manhattan newspapers, an advertising copy writer. Now in his late fifties (he says he is "eleven going on twelve"), Author Benefield commutes three days a week from suburban Peekskill, N. Y. to Manhattan to read manuscripts for his publishers, Reynal & Hitchcock. He still speaks with an oldtime Texas drawl...
...Before the July 4 holiday or the Danzig crisis could be blamed, Bethlehem Steel shut down two furnaces at its mammoth Buffalo (N. Y.) works...
...present-day social trends. They announced an old friend of Lang Williams' as a new director of Freeport Sulphyr: husky, 38-year-old Alan Valentine (onetime Swarthmore footballer and Phi Beta Kappa), now president of wealthy, Eastman-endowed University of Rochester. Alan Valentine will commute from Rochester, N. Y. to Manhattan for directors' meetings, will draw the regular director's fee (normally between $10 and $20 a meeting...