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...cloud, hitchhiking on thermal currents. Over the rugged Alleghanies he soared in silence, flew south along the Susquehanna River. Over Scranton he ran out of clouds; dropped to 500 ft. Hot air over the city pushed him up again, enabled him to float serenely through the Delaware Water Gap. With the skyscrapers of Manhattan just visible in the distance, he ran out of clouds again, dropped to 200 ft. over the flat Jersey countryside, was forced to land at an airport in Basking Ridge.* He had missed his father's prize money by five miles...
Much has been said and even more, perhaps, has been written about the transition from school to college. Too little, apparently, has been done to bridge the gap that obviously exists for many...
...products, bought the foundry (La Societe Generale des Hauts Feurneaux) for 2,500,000 francs--and were then forced to wait for almost twenty years for their first major war. War-promotion methods in those days were not what they were to become later in the century, but that gap was neatly bridged by the demands that the new steambeats and the even newer railroads were making on the producers of iron and steel. Pheu, in 1854, the Crimean War broke out, and Eagene (alone now, following Adolph's death) converted l.e. Creusot almost exclusive to the manufacture of arms...
...Administration. Tammany put its bets on Al Smith instead of Franklin Roosevelt at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Tammany bucked the nomination of honest Herbert Henry Lehman for Governor of the State. Tammany foisted bumbling old John Patrick O'Brien on the city as a stop-gap mayor. Tammany lost last year's municipal election to a Fusion-Republican ticket. For this accumulation of political sins Boss Curry last week paid with his head...
...people. Ten years ago they (these "Bright Boys") got it from a magnificent Inetizo --about 35 per cent German, but 15 per cent aboriginal Mexican Indian--a man who refused to be mowed down--Bans Staengel killed himself, but Ernest Hans Staengel Killed himself, but Ernest Hanfstaengel bridged the gap...