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...when a few weeks later the city called for bids on 40,000 bags of cement, it found that domestic cement dealers had jumped their price 10? per bag. The bids were thrown out. new ones called for. Last week the Board of Estimate, disgusted with this result of BUY AMERICAN, and egged on by Attorney Samuel Untermyer who denounced the U. S. cement industry as a price-fixing trust, rescinded its ban on foreign cement...
...TIME (May 29) under Aeronautics I was somewhat surprised at some of the statements. In the first place, if I stay on earth till June 6 I will have been here 63 years. I have been in the balloon business over 30 years. I have never filled a bag in ten minutes, and it takes more than $1.30 to inflate one of our bags. I have them from 60 ft. to 95 ft. The larger will carry two riders, usually a man and a woman. We have done all stunts mentioned and a great many others. Our "stove pipe...
...postponed the deed, sent messages to the Cortes protesting the section forbidding primary and secondary education by monks or nuns, insisting on the right to use the mediating power that is his under the Constitution. An open break threatened between Zamora's adherents and the Socialist followers of bag-jowled Premier Manuel Azana. It looked like bargain day to snaggle-toothed President Francisco Macia of Catalonia. He hurried over to Madrid to swap the votes of his 40 deputies for additional home rights for Catalonia, and a loan...
Thus began the "re-enactment"' of the first balloon ascension made 150 years ago at Annonay, France by the Brothers Montgolfier. The Montgolfiers' balloon (globe aerostatique) likewise was lifted by hot air. It carried a lire grate beneath the open mouth of the bag to maintain the hot air supply. The Bonettes were commemorating that event, but their balloon relied on its original supply of hot air. At about 3,000 ft. it struck a layer of cold air, began to shrink and descend. That should have been the signal for King Louie to jump with his chute...
...favorite Bonette stunt is the ''bomb drop." At the proper moment the daredevil, who has been stunting on the trapeze, hanging by knees and by teeth, pulls a cord releasing a bag of bombs which explode beneath the balloon, enveloping it in a cloud of smoke and a glorious blaze of fireworks. Completely concealed he then yanks his "quickknife" cord, a gadget which cuts the parachute free of its bag...