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...theory that the plane was struck by lightning. Last week the possibility was offered again. An old Lockheed monoplane, carrying four Kansas City businessmen and a transport pilot home from a fishing trip, took off from Aransas Pass, Tex., climbed 4,000 ft., disappeared in a big black cloud. A moment later watchers saw the ship hurtle out of the cloud, its wing trailing like a broken limb. The hull crashed to earth, disintegrating as it fell. All occupants were killed. There was no explosion, no fire. Airport officials doubted lightning was the cause, believed the pilot, trying to right...
While this was taking place in Detroit, a cloud of rumors continued to float about the bright tower of the Chrysler Building in Manhattan, world's tallest man-made thing. It had been announced that the building is on a paying basis. By July 1, 72% of the space was leased. But it was common knowledge that Mr. Chrysler, like other Manhattan landlords, was having trouble finding tenants. Passersby thought they saw signs of economizing in the dimming of the building's lobby lights at night and the failure of searchlights to play on the 1,046-ft. pinnacle...
Last week the National Geographic Society reported that its South American survey plane was cruising from Miami to Havana when: "Pilot Hawkins, to avoid an angry black cloud, veered to port. Then, to our amazement, there quickly dropped from the north end of the storm cloud a thin writhing black column of a waterspout. In a few seconds, as we watched, it grew into a black, whirling corkscrew at least 600 feet high and probably 50 feet or more in diameter. ... As it grew in size ... it took the shape and appearance of a great snake, spray and mist rising...
...Chrysler Building are 77 stories, a much-needed smart, uptown lunching place called Cloud Club, murals by Edward Trumbull (depicting "Energy and man's application of it to the solution of his problems"). In the Bank of Manhattan Building are 71 stories, an officer's club on the 55th floor, murals by Ezra Winter (depicting oldtime Wall Street scenes...
Every year Dr. Rudolfs makes a trade with the swamp eagles: He gives them blood, they give him information. Not many availed themselves of the trade last week as the Jersey mosquitoes have not yet attained their summer cloud proportions. When plentiful later on in the summer they will give Dr. Rudolfs at least ten bites per minute...