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...plan is: that banks, insurance companies, mortgage loan concerns form a pool of $100,000,000 which will be loaned to cooperative marketing organizations for the financing and marketing of farm products at increased prices. Herbert Hoover is said to have hatched the scheme, intends to call a conference of farmers, financiers, government officials to nourish...
...trance was at an end he did not breathe. To Fakir Bey, Harry Houdini, trickster, gave the lie, donned blue trunks, a white shirt, a luminous wrist watch, entered an airtight tin coffin equipped with a telephone and electric pushbutton, was lowered to the depth of the Shelton Hotel Pool, Manhattan...
...half hours six strapping men stood on the coffin lid, held it at the bottom of the pool until Mr. Houdini telephoned that he was getting numb. Extricated, too weak to move, he explained that he had conserved his air supply by taking little breaths. His comparative conditions were as follows...
John Weissmuller, ferry-finned pool-plasher of the Illinois A. C., is swimming faster than ever before. Last week he leaped into the Miramar pool, Manhattan, lalloped nine times up and down, clipped 1 1/5 sec. from his own world's record for the 220-yd. dash by traversing the distance...
...halfway through the neck of another ... as I wheeled about, I laid one black throat open to see the bone and sent my point through another filthy ragged jellabia in the region of its owner's fifth rib . . . from among seven bodies, some yet twitching in a pool of blood, a spouting Thing dragged itself by its fingers and toes towards the stairs...