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...Stead was now over the sea and, with 20 gallons of gas left-enough to keep him aloft only another twenty minutes-he was told his position was off the Point Reyes light. By now the dispatcher was running the plane. He told Stead there was a rough beach and a bench (level ground above a beach) behind the light...
Shortly after one o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Shreck heard her 36-year-old husband's voice on 3,105 kilocycles, where many a pilot's anxious wife listens while he is aloft. He was on instruments at 15,000 feet, bogging down with a heavy load of ice, blown far east of Spokane by a terrific wind. The rest was silence. Last week, Pilot Shreck, still bundled in his water-soaked flying suit, stumbled into a farmhouse 50 miles east of Spokane. He had crashed on a 5,000-foot wooded ridge, had walked, crawled...
After cavorting aloft for almost half an hour, the new bomber whipped low over the airport, climbed again to 3,000 feet and soared along at 300 m.p.h. Test Pilot John Cable then apparently cut one motor to try a climb on half power. Instead of climbing the ship went into a spin. John Cable bailed out at 500 feet, pulled the ripcord of his parachute too late, died on the ground. In a parking lot less than 50 feet from his body, the bomber demolished nine automobiles before it stopped...
General Electric Co.'s laboratories in Schenectady last week demonstrated (see cut, p. 23) a tiny magnet, about the size of a pellet of buckshot, holding aloft a five pound flatiron. The magnet weighs about one-sixteenth of an ounce. The maximum ratio of lifted load to magnet weight is 1,500 to i, highest in the annals of engineering. Thus General Electric's mighty mite is the most powerful permanent magnet on record...
...Holding aloft the costly ostensorium, which in a glass clip contained the Sacred Host-to Catholics the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ-Cardinal Mundelein gave to the 65,000 faithful the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament as lights in the Park blinked out and thousands of candles sprang into flickering glow. For a mercy, the rain held...