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With Smoke & Flame. Two minutes later, at 2:13, a small orange flame licked the base of the rocket. With a throbbing roar, the giant main charge took light. A flood of flame submerged the launching platform. Slowly the rocket rose, so slowly and lazily at first that it seemed to be suspended by an invisible chain. It picked up speed, roared higher & higher, trailing a 60-ft. plume of brilliant flame. Up, up it climbed, its roar diminishing with distance, its glare contracting until it looked like a bright orange star. Then it vanished, leaving a thin trail...
...captured German optical instruments, the rocket had climbed 75 miles into the ionosphere. Three minutes after its start, it hurtled downward, hit the ground 39 miles to the northward at 2,400 miles an hour, and, reported a watching Army flyer, buried itself in sand with a gush of flame...
John Lewis' one objective may be a very simple one: just to be in the limelight. Throughout the years, like a potbellied moth, he has courted the flame of publicity. History, while recording his contributions-his gains for his miners; his great exposition of the idea of industrial unionization, his usually peerless strategy-may also record that he was one of U.S. labor's greatest charlatans...
...temporary confines of banks and bonds. When the new Price Control Act requires that ceilings on any item whose production for "a 12 month period is equal to its production for the peak year, July 1940 to June 1941" be lifted, economic dynamite is being held too near the flame. Today's goods-hungry consumers could snap up total 1941 production in a month, leaving thousands unsatisfied. All-out bidding would begin, and-before production could catch demand-prices, costs, and wages would be climbing skyward in a grand spiral. The clause guaranteeing a "reasonable profit" to producers, processors, distributors...
This barroom-ballad of a tale concerns Delia Green (Ruby Hill), a loose and lovely charmer who chucks a saloonkeeper for a whirlwind jockey called Little Augie (Harold Nicholas). The saloonkeeper gets plugged by a discarded flame, but thinking that Augie fired the shot, puts a dying-breath curse on him. Augie's luck changes and, hoping to lift the jinx, Delia leaves him. But his luck soon returns, and so does the lady...