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...first conclusion reached after the disastrous crash of our overambitious plans for foreign trade in 1920, was that we had best stick to domestic trade and write our foreign efforts off as a War delusion. Yet the recent marked gain in both our imports and exports with Latin America goes to show that something substantial has survived the 1919-20 boom...
...miserably in many parts of Europe. We must substitute service for profit as the supreme motive in life, and begin social organization and the deliberate planning of industry. In America unlike Europe, there is time to apply intelligence to the working out of a new system before the inevitable crash of capitalism...
Flying in a fog, a pilot may imagine himself to be hundreds of feet above the ground only to crash disastrously to earth. In an extremely sensitive altimeter designed by Arthur W. Uhl of Long Island City, condenser plates are placed on the wing tips in an oscillating circuit. The earth is itself a gigantic conductor and its proximity affects the circuit and warns the pilot through a cockpit indicator. Successful on test, this device may save many a life in such all weather work as that of the Air Mail...
...known alarm clock could have raised such a crowd of students so instantaneously, for in less than two minutes after the crash the scene of the accident was surrounded by a truly motley crowd anxious to assist the victims. Fortunately the toll was slight, the driver of the Chevrolet being the only person to appear even shaken up, while to the spectators' utter astonishment, five men sound in body and mind crawled one after another from the tonneau of the Ford...
Percy Hammond: " The fusillade of pistols, the racket of overturning furniture, the crash of many breaking plates...