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...many as three planes. But pilots eventually wear out too. The number of Ger man training planes is proof that onetime Pursuit Pilot Goring has not forgotten this lesson. Germany's training equipment is about 25% greater than that of the Allies, and it is a safe guess that it is being used to turn out replacements at a pro portionate rate for the oil-smeared, fire-bitten men who will go down if the air war is begun on a full-dress scale...
...Guess you're made of sterner stuff. --The Daily Princetonian...
...with John Quincy Adams and Rutherford B. Hayes and Grover Cleveland-with strong Presidents who had a few great issues to settle but whose integrity and sterling character have made them stand out more for what they were than for what they did." Such, this week, was the "definitive" guess of Biographer Fuess, 55-year-old headmaster of Andover. Specifically, he admitted that Coolidge lacked "broad vision," originality, imagination. Such admissions testify to Biographer Fuess' fairness; they do not diminish one whit his great admiration for Coolidge...
Such common sense was lost on the befuddled supervisors. One of them insisted $6,000 was enough. Another suggested raising the ante to $10,000 and moving expenses. So last week, still sticking to $9,000, they finally decided to have civil-service examination for the six candidates. Best guess was that Dr. Wood would star in the exam. Whether he would be appointed no one could say. Certain it was that Los Angeles doctors, fed up with political fights, were ready to blow the lid off County Hospital...
...squeeze was an act of God, ordered banks to stop lending for speculation and scared silk dealers by hinting that they might soon have to report all their transactions. Down tumbled the price of raw silk, sold last week in New York City at $3.17½ per pound. Best guess is that when raw silk costs $3, silk yarn and nylon yarn cost about the same. Thus, to compete with long-wearing nylon, silk will probably have to go lower than $3. Nothing would encourage nascent nylon more than for the Japanese to hold their silk close, keep on selling...