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Minutes ticked on and on. The christening was to be at high noon. It was 11:52, then 11:53. Chancellor Bruning had just got to the part of his speech about the League of Nations and taken a long breath. It was 11:54 when crack-something gave...
Wheel. When Pilot Charles ("Chuck" ) Weiblen of Pittsburgh Airways took off from Pittsburgh's Bettis Field for Buffalo with three women passengers, airport officials saw one of his wheels dangling crazily. Unaware of the damage, Pilot Weiblen would naturally attempt a normal landing at his destination-and crack up. A mail plane was dispatched with a sign ''broken wheel" hastily painted on its side. Pilot Weiblen saw, turned back, made four attempts to land on one wheel. On the fifth he succeeded, dug a wingtip into the ground, damaged the ship only slightly. The three passengers took...
...summoned William Wallace Atterbury, then general manager (now president) of Pennsylvania R. R., made him Chief of Transportation. He had "personality, force, grasp of the difficulties and willingness" which made him one of General Pershing's favorite subordinates. Between them there were endless conferences. Brigadier General Atterbury did a crack job with transportation and, in the eyes of his chief, contributed largely to the success of the A. E. F.'s later military operations...
...Lakehurst Naval Air Station from Washington went Lieut. Commander Rosendahl last week, to assemble for his new command a crack crew?about ten officers, 40 enlisted men?from the personnel trained aboard the Los Angeles (his old command). As second-in-command of the Akron the Navy picked Lieut. Commander Herbert V. Wiley, a veteran of the Shenandoah and of five years service on the Los Angeles. Chief engineer, in charge of the eight Maybachmotors which will drive Akron at 83 m. p. h., is Lieut. Commander Bertram J. Rodgers...
Burton's soldier father was glad to further his son's military ambition, but was too poor to buy him a commission in a crack regiment. Young Richard had to be content with the native army of the East India Company. But the routine of army life soon bored him; he was always putting in for risky assignments: investigations in disguise among the natives, a journey to Harrar in Somaliland, whence no white man had ever returned; searching for the source of the Nile (his companion Speke got the credit for discovering Victoria Nyanza, but Burton led the expedition...