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Other witnesses for the defense told that certain airplanes are used which are known as especially likely to catch fire if they crash; that anti-aircraft fire is not an effective protection against airplane attack...
Captain Robert Oldys was another witness. He told of the death of his commanding officer, Major Harley Wheeler, in a crash at Hawaii. Major Wheeler told him a few minutes before his fatal flight that he had been "bawled out" by Colonel Chamberlain, Chief of Staff of the Hawaiian Department, because so many machines had been smashed. Major Wheeler took the air; at 200 feet his engine stopped; instead of trying to save himself, he tried to save the plane. He was burned to a crisp when he was found...
...stock market, led by the motor shares, had continued to soar for months and a reaction was obviously overdue. In such a situation, as has often been proved, the crash in prices can be and usually is attributed to almost any event whether it has any close bearing on the stock market or not. In this particular case it was raising of the rediscount rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 3½% to 4%-a step occasioned by purely local conditions. Speculators in stocks, dealing in a market which had grown top-heavy of its own accord...
...guise of a mysterious chamber lined with ancient plates, one of which falls whenever a lie is told. It would be interesting to test that room by discussing last night's show inside it. The strong suspicion is that almost every favorable comment would be drowned by the crash of shattering china...
...Until we crash through and score...