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...jumped at 12,000 ft. After a sheer drop of 2,000 ft. he spread his arms and legs, felt the air sustain him. Like a spread-eagled bat he slanted steeply downward, getting the "feel" of his wings. Bending his knees experimentally, he whipped over in an inside loop. Then he zoomed left & right, leveled off, dived, pulled up in a short climb. Satisfied he had succeeded in his experiment, he folded his wings, pulled the ripcord of his regular parachute at 6,000 ft., landed some three miles from his starting point. His flight had lasted 75 seconds...
...outstanding marksman like scoring by Winmill and Davis gave the galloping Easterners the hairbreadth edge required to defeat their enlisted opponents. Working beautifully together, Davis and Gerry put up such a formidable defense that their hosts were unable to find the necessary scoring loop-hole during the last three chukkers...
...morning. Whistles blew and bells rang for a full five minutes throughout Chicago. An aerial bomb broke over the Lagoon as the day's 10,000th visitor pushed through the turnstiles. Two bombs signaled the arrival of the 20,000th. Buglers posted on "L" platforms throughout the Loop blew long & loud at high noon. Schools closed. Early in the afternoon a bewildered grey-haired grandmother was whisked off to the Administration Building where, as the 16,000,000th visitor of 1934, she was presented with a five-acre farm and enough clothes, clocks, books and food to fill a truck...
Coming off the loop, Playfair and Pier led by sixty yards, followed by Minor and Woodland of Yale with Woodard and Channing a few yards behind, Hogan faded to seventh, Channing of Yale was next, and Walker came in ninth...
Coming off the loop, Webster of New Hampshire had faded, and Matthews led the pack, with Pier and Playfair at his shoulder. Captain Woodard, Scheu, Channing, and Fred Webster followed them, with intervals of fifty yards between...