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...Champion George Spitz of NYU a fine sky jumping battle. The broad jump based on previous performances of the entries should go to Stowe of Dartmouth, with Godshall of Cornell second and Rodman of Dartmouth third. Harvard has a good number of potential scorers in this event who may crash through to give the Crimson several much needed points. There is Eddie Calvin and Windy Hasler and Captain Morse, any of whom may show something...
...plane started to fall. Frantically he tore open its mail compartment, began to dump sack after sack over the side. A farmer near Deshler, Ohio, 50 mi. south of the Chicago-Cleveland airway, heard a plane roar over his roof. He heard a motor cut off. He heard a crash in his wood lot. He found Lieut. Lowry's mangled body in the wreckage of his ship...
...course. Lieut. Charles P. Hollstein was heading east over the Allegheny '"Hell Stretch" with mail from Cleveland to Washington. His radio, which the Army had less than ten days to install for airmail service, faded out. Completely lost, Lieut. Hollstein ran into a soupy fog, made a crash landing on an ice-clad hill outside Uniontown, Pa. His head and face badly gashed, he managed to scramble out of the wrecked ship and summon aid to rescue his mail...
...complete story were available, the amount would have been many times 20 billions of dollars," Inquisitor Pecora added. It would, according to Inquisitor Pecora's method of ciphering. "Other" (i. e. not bank) loans to brokers were a major factor in the pre-crash credit inflation. Often known as "bootleg loans," they were beyond the reach of Federal Reserve control. Call loans are payable on demand, are secured largely by active listed stocks, are practically riskless. During 1929 the interest rate on call loans ranged between 5% and 20%. No good corporation treasurer could overlook that opportunity...
...Middle West, "wanted to write"; Rose was a pretty Southerner who thought she could act. Instead they got married. Dick changed his investments, and the Coolidge boom kept him thinking he was clever and well off. Rose turned their first attempt at a child into an abortion. When the crash came they went to Paris to save money. There Rose got in with people Dick disliked. She and Dick quarreled. But inertia, a wise doctor and common sense brought them together again. They went back to the U. S., settled on a little farm. Dick no longer wanted to write...