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...Fairly creaking under a heavy load of fuel, a four-year-old Fairchild monoplane named Miss U. S. S. Louisville lurched clumsily down the concrete runway of New York's Floyd Bennett Field, wobbled from side to side, finally skidded into the soft grass and wrecked its landing gear. Out of the cabin crawled two rueful young men with 80? in their pockets and a strange story to tell. They had just attempted a take-off "to Portugal." Both men-Frank Gushing and Andrew Soos Jr.-were sailors absent without leave from the U. S. S. Louisville which fortnight...
...more often used to mean is a tax on everything bought & sold, or a tax on everything with certain specified exceptions. Essentially the jdea of a sales tax is to put on thousands of articles so small a tax that no one will notice it, rather than to load the burden on a few articles or on a few sources such as personal income...
...Senate's unfinished business. For weeks in committee the Insurgent-Demo-cratic heart of Edward Prentiss Costigan and the Insurgent-Republican heart of Robert Marion La Follette bled as one witness after another told them how the nation's private charity organizations had all but broken down under the load of local relief. The Costigan-La Follette remedy was a $375.000.000 gift from the Govern-ment through the States to jobless citizens...
Yesterday in the league A squash matches Lowell and Kirkland kept their load by defeating respectively Lovered and Winthrop, in both cases winning at but one match...
...credit will be largely used as a bank crutch. It will, its friends hope, relieve the strong banks of the job of carrying the weak ones, thus freeing their liquid assets for more constructive purposes. The one great danger cited is that R. F. C. may so load itself up with all the frozen securities now clogging the banks that it will itself go into a frigid state and sink out of helpfulness...