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...four years after Lawrence Sheppard, Father H. D. Sheppard and C. N. Myers, partners in the thriving ($4) Hanover Shoe Co. (128 stores), founded Hanover Shoe Farms near the Sheppard homestead at Hanover, Pa. A strictly blue-ribbon breeding farm, Hanover Shoe Farms owns such famed stallions as Sandy Flash, Dillon Axworthy, the 1926 Hambletonian winner Guy McKinney, and Shirley Hanover's sire, Mr. McElwyn...
...work with Professor Piccard in supplying balloons for his activities in the upper air and are greatly impressed by his courage and ingenuity. Of course the balloons with which he made his ascent are exactly the same thing as are used singly for sending up meteorological instruments to flash back radio signals of the weather conditions in the stratosphere. Three Government stations are now using them instead of airplanes for obtaining daily weather observations from the upper...
...profane, bespectacled young capitalist whose life has been a garage mechanic's dream. Errett Lobban Cord got his start in Los Angeles building "racing" bodies for junked Fords. He drove in dirt track races in Tacoma. He worked in a garage. In his early 20s he became a flash automobile salesman for the old Moon agency in Chicago. In 1924 he walked into the subdued Auburn company, made it hum, became its president in less than a year. He bought control of Duesenberg, the Lycoming motor works and the Stinson passenger airplane business. By the end of 1933 Cord...
...accident, which occurred while Udet was competing in the Alpine circuit for solo pursuit planes, the German stunter nonchalantly described it to New York Times Correspondent Clarence K. Streit, who reported it thus: ". . . His racing monoplane cut through a 30,000-volt railway trolley in a blinding flash. His three-blade metal propeller became entangled in the cable supporting the trolley, and the monoplane whirled around. The tail flew off, but General Udet's luck remained. The cable was mounted on pulleys and counterweights, which allowed it to run out with the plane. The cable stood the shock...
...Philadelphians conscious that right was on their side. A young lawyer named Robert Dechert got up to deliver a careful speech. The bulgy mayor listened, cut him short, spoke for a few minutes in a voice so low that the electric fan had to be stilled. Then photographers' flash bulbs puffed as the mayor shook hands with Lawyer Dechert and his clients, the officers of Philadelphia's four renowned mutual life insurance companies, who became thus quietly victorious in one of the scariest episodes of their careers...