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Viola Gentry of Gentry, N. C.. dressed herself snugly at Roosevelt Field, L. I., last week, and took up a Travel Air plane, equipped with Siemens-Halske motor. She sought and gained something that has no real aeronautical importance-the woman's endurance record. Her time aloft alone was 8 hrs. 6 min. 37 sec., better than Lady Sophie Heath's 77-hr, record made earlier this year. Sixteen years ago, when planes were a novel and dangerous experiment, Ruth Law stayed up six hours. Neither the National Aeronautic Association or the Federation Aeronautique Internationale pays attention...
...consequent extension of credit by the Federal Reserve system; 3) the increase of speculation by "powerful groups" and the general public, which "believed and acted as if the price of securities would indefinitely advance"; 4) the reversal of Federal Reserve policy, sending money rates aloft...
...People?on roofs and on streets. It took an hour for the Smith automobile to travel 20 blocks. For safety the motor had to be shut off; the People pushed the car. An old man in a robe stood on a truck at Scollay Square; he held aloft a sign saying: "Diogenes looking for Hoover Prosperity." The air was full of a thousand Smiths and not a few O'Briens; they were on pages of torn-up telephone books. It was getting dark. The Smith mounted a bandstand on Boston Common. Noise. Ambulances. Later were found upon the Common purses...
Cried keynoter and Chairman of the Congress George Lansbury (a onetime Red now faded Pink and increasingly potent, among Laborites) : "Socialism is now British Labor's only goal. We raise that banner aloft and we shall keep it flying until Great Britain's resources are owned and used in the service of all the people...
...command from His Majesty King Amanullah, a new standard rose and streamed aloft. It was striped vertically black, red, green...