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...Phoenix, Ariz., Henry Leggett took his new roadster out for a drive, was astonished when two great battling owls burst through the windshield, showering him with fur, glass, feathers. Peering into the back seat he discovered the two owls and a rabbit, dead...
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...with special permission from the Department of Commerce) to cross the continent in a cabin glider towed at the end of a 300-ft. rope behind a power plane. First day he was towed 400 mi., from San Diego to Tucson, with a stop at Yuma and Phoenix. At such way stations he unhooked his "car"' from its "locomotive" and coasted to earth, demonstrating the possibility of air '"trains...
...This statement was disputed at the University of Chicago. Declared Dexter Masters, editor of Phoenix: "About 40% of the men on the campus drink liquor. Women drink in almost the same proportion." In 1927 the university authorities complained to the U. S. Prohibition Unit against the ease with which students secured liquor...
...ready to be put in commission, fire mysteriously broke out in four different places amidships, the ship burned to "the waterline for a $6,000,000 loss. Rueful British insurance men who had taken a large part of the Europa's underwriting, paid $4,500,000. In July Phoenix Europa arose from her ashes, was launched again. When the ship was halfway down the ways another mysterious explosion blew away half of the wooden scaffolding supporting her. Fortunately the Europa was uninjured...