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...vanished within the edifice. Came more dark forms, loitering, hurrying, in quiet pairs, in loud-talking squads. All passed into the edifice. Two hours later, the chapel opened, the dark forms poured forth an impromptu parade. Song burst out, punctuated with shouts, as the paraders marched. Placards were hoisted aloft, reading: "What is this going to be- an army or a university?"; "Before we will be slaves we will be in graves"; "Don't be an Uncle...
Then raised he up aloft on high his sword...
After the first shock, the crew settled down very quickly. The envelope was dented along its whole length, the bow was hanging in shreds and there was danger in the fierce wind that it would rip still further. Men went aloft in sailor style, lowered a rope ladder over the bow, gather up the loose ends of the flapping cover and bunched them , together. They made untidy balls but prevented the fabric from ripping further. In the first burst of the gale, the ship traveled stern first for many miles, rolling constantly and threatening to head down into the water...
...their troubles with a huge gas bag, in this case the TC-3, a nonrigid twin-motored airship of only 200,000 cu. ft., scarcely one-tenth the volume of the R-33. Sailing from Scott Field, III., the TC3 broke her rudder at Caseyville, Ill., soon after going aloft. For two hours, she drifted at the will of the wind, then negotiated a landing at Black Walnut, Mo., little the worse for wear...
With half a ton of freight born aloft by its metal wings, the Maiden Dearborn, fledgling of Henry Ford's fleet of aeroplanes, made her first voyage. Rising from the ground at Dearborn, Mich., she flew, in a morning, to Chicago, unloaded and reloaded and returned to the Ford airport at Dearborn the same afternoon. Henry and Edsel Ford witnessed the plane's departure. Mrs. Henry Ford was on hand to stow the first parcel of freight in the plane. "Ultimately," said Edsel Ford, "we hope to link our plants at Chicago, at St. Louis, at St. Paul...