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...bottle of liquid air on the gondola, christened it Century of Progress. Colors were piped. Bands blared "Anchors Aweigh." Commander Settle climbed into the gondola, waved, sealed himself in, and was off into the moonlit sky. Searchlights fingered the balloon as it floated up and westward over the Loop. After ten minutes it ceased to rise. Then it began to fall. Down, down it came, skimming the sheds in the Burlington & Quincy Railroad yards at 14th & Canal Streets. Plunk!-it landed on the tracks, barely missing the head of a yardman and scaring him out of his wits...
...tunnels, which most Chicagoans live and die without ever seeing, have little likeness to the passenger subways of other cities. They lie not just beneath the street but 40 feet below the surface. Driven through clay (bed rock is several hundred feet below the surface in Chicago's Loop) and walled with concrete a foot thick, they are but six feet wide and seven and a half feet high. There are 62 miles of such tunnels, under nearly every street of downtown Chicago. Through them engineers guide small electric locomotives (running on a 2-ft. gauge track and powered...
...left Pennsylvania for Chicago where he worked his way through the University of Chicago, got a job as a newshawk on the Daily News. He quit the Daily News to return to the University for a law course, came out and set up a small practice in the Loop. His onetime partner was Donald Randall Richberg, longtime attorney for railroad labor and now counsel to General Hugh Johnson's Industrial Recovery Administration in Washington. "Mrs. Ickes' Husband." In 1911 Harold Ickes married Anna Wilmarth Thompson who had divorced Professor James Westfall Thompson. By her first marriage...
...soaring meet at Elmira, N. Y., Richard Chichester du Pont, 24, son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. took his father for his first hop in a sailplane. A shift in the wind whipped the heavy glider into a ground loop, spilled it into a clump of bushes. Pilot du Pont & parent were unscratched...
...Midway, officially named.for the amusement centre of the 1893 Fair, the visitor will find under new names most of the devices which amused the visitors of 40 years ago. Here are the Lindy Loop, the Hey Dey, Bozo, a roller coaster, Midget Village, captive balloon, shooting galleries, an Oriental village with dancing girls...