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...reminded of the story of the little boy in an East Side school in New York. The teacher of the class held up a picture of a bird and asked Johnny what...
When, at 16, she becomes pregnant, she steals 100 francs from the local post office and runs away to Bordeaux. There she miscarries the child, takes to prostitution as a starving bird takes to a cage. The captain of a tramp steamer gets her drunk, whisks her off with him to Venezuela. There he drops her; there, bit by bit, she begins to collect money to get back to her adored France...
...Pearson Warner, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics. The information in the volumes was not all new to Col. Young, because his department had supplied much of it. But together they set forth aeronautical facts & figures which gave Col. Young and the public-at-large a quick bird's-eye view of U. S. aviation. Prime facts & figures...
Like 999, Sir Malcolm's Blue Bird is hard to start. It has two small motors for this purpose. After training for six months (not drinking, smoking very little) and after waiting two weeks for a day when the wide flat beach would be sufficiently dry and smooth, Sir Malcolm Campbell last week had Blue Bird brought from the shed in which he keeps it. His chief mechanic, Leo Villa, helped him start the motors five miles above the measured mile course. Sitting low, looking through a streamlined pocket of glass at a motor-revolution gauge which looks like...
Barney Oldfield, after seeing Blue Bird perform, said he planned to beat Sir Malcolm's record with a 32-cylinder car built like an inverted canoe. Unlike Oldfield, who could not even ride a bicycle until he was 17, Sir Malcolm Campbell learned to drive a car when he should have been in school, learned about motors by tinkering a second-hand motorcycle. When he inherited £250,000 and a seat on Lloyd's (where his life and car are insured for a total of £20,000), he continued to experiment. In 1909 he built an airplane...