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Many times heralded as one of the best photographs of the year is this actively impressionistic photograph of Bandleader Cab Calloway by Bert Longworth. It is reprinted here by special permission of the editors of U. S. Camera 1936. He'd make a swell interference runner Giant Neil Simpson and Gerald Kagel, coaches the South Dakota School of Mines 1037 graduates shake hands with Tyramusruns Rex, a reptile what the Redlands 40,000,000 years ago and is now a resident of the WPA's Dinosaur Park near Sioux Falls...
About 4:30 a. m. they emerged to find rain pouring. They took a taxicab and drove around the block, dropped the Princess Therese de Caraman-Chimay at the Savoy-Plaza, then went on around to the Plaza, just across Fifth Avenue. As their cab paused, waiting an opportunity to turn in, a car drew up alongside. A man with a pistol leaped out, covered the taxi driver. Two others opened the door of the cab and leaned in. One made a grab at a necklace of square-cut emeralds and diamonds, the most obvious item among several hundred thousand...
...last words in trucks this year are streamlining, lightness, safety and C. O. E. (cab over engine). By compressing the front of a truck so the driver sits directly over the engine, the maker gains numerous advantages: 1) better teardrop streamlining; 2) equal freight capacity with considerably shorter wheelbase, which makes driving and parking easier; 3) better load distribution, so that the front wheels carry as much weight as the rear wheels. Practically all truck makers have plumped for C. O. E. Profiting by the experience of automobile makers who rushed too fast into streamlining, most truck makers have adopted...
...known to natives as the Hoot, Toot and Whistle) which last month let excursionists ride in the locomotive cab, fire the 44-year-old engine, ride on the top of cars for 22 of its 24 miles of track up the Deerfield River valley from the east portal of the Hoosac Tunnel...
...Aberdeen, N. C., M. S. Hawkins, tobacco "farmer," was sleeping in the cab of a truck which he had driven into a tobacco warehouse the night before, intending to unload and sell his tobacco the next day. Mr. Hawkins dreamed that he was crossing a railroad track, that his vehicle was about to be struck by an oncoming train. At that critical juncture in his dream a fast freight actually roared by along a track near the warehouse, with a jangle of bell and blast of whistle. Not waiting to open the door, Tobacco Grower Hawkins hastily dived through...