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...Walloping Windowblind. Commodore Aldrich will ever be compelled to dine on the bark of the Rug-Bug tree or to traffic with a Chinese junk. A member of 18 clubs and seven directorates, including the board of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., he can have contempt for the wildest blow on shore...
...places in the U. S. suitable for soaring and gliding, Elmira, N. Y. is one of the best.* High hills on three sides of a valley assure the necessary upcurrents whenever a reasonably brisk breeze blows. Perversely, except for an occasional gusty storm, the wind failed to blow for nearly all of 14 days of the National Glider Association's second annual meet which ended last week. Nearly 30 gliding and soaring craft (20 of them the famed Franklin type) were assembled for the meet. For ten days the pilots tried with little success to make sustained flights. Then...
...Winds That Blow." Ever since the rate case began the I. C. C. has been bombarded with outside advice and suggestions. Propaganda for and against the roads flowed into its quasi-judicial headquarters in Washington. Boldest, most startling public statement on Ex Parte 103 was made fortnight ago by Philadelphia's Representative James Montgomery Beck, good friend of Pennsylvania R. R. who threatened to instigate Congressional action to strip the I. C. C. of its large powers unless it hastened to grant what the roads asked. When Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas read the Beck broadside he sat down...
...Beck's statement, Chairman Brainerd replied thus to him: "You would be warranted in assuming that despite all attempts to in fluence improperly the Commission's judgment, it will continue to render its decisions based upon 'the record as made, undisturbed by all the winds that blow...
Last week the Aframerican Pittsburgh Courier dealt a hard blow to the powers of darkness. It announced that it would hereafter reject "all advertising pertaining to luck, mysticism, fortunetelling, get rich-quick schemes," and the like...