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...Whoa, Mr. President," cried the Detroit News, sensing in Franklin Roosevelt's nonbelligerent intervention a pull toward war. Hundreds of letters approved (8-to-1) the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's, bitter declaration that the President, unless checked, would take the U. S. over the brink...
...rigorous schedule. Material is only surface deep in several spots, but a grid campaign free of costly injuries is long overdue for Dick Harlow and his aides. If the tackles can hold out against the terrific power which is certain to be generated directly at them, Dick Harlow may pull a big surprise and herd his Johnnies right back into the thick of the Big Three scrap...
...expenses for her show, acts the leading role too, which drops her below Irna; Elaine Sterne Carrington (Pepper Young's Family), who collects an estimated $2,500 a week; Jane Cruisinberry (The Story of Mary Marling and Jane West (The O'Neills), who pull up fourth with about $1,250 a week each. Although she makes more than her three associates, Irna lives as modestly as a mouse in a two-and-a-half-room apartment in Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel...
Later, sitting under the stilled rotor on Bridgeport's field, he explained his controls. For forward flight, he pushes the ship's nose down, lets gravity pull it toward the ground while the rotor pulls it into the air. The component of the forces of lift and gravity is the line of flight-which can be backward, forward or side-wise-much as a man can move forward by inclining his body and just barely prevent himself from falling by putting his feet in front of him in time...
...pull with all one's strength for five minutes against what was practically a dead weight without the slightest chance to relax a muscle was a severe test of endurance. After a contest, some men could not at once sit up, some collapsed. I remember one who fell in a dead faint. . . . Pulling from cleats in a prone position put such strain on the heart that many athletes were permanently injured and so the game was outlawed in the early...