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Next day the family and crew built a flimsy shelter with stones and a piece of fabric stripped from the plane. From clambering over the rocks in thin shoes, the children's feet were bruised and bleeding. New shoes were fashioned from life preserver covers. Soup and coffee were warmed over an alcohol flame. As the second night began the group split a quart of champagne which Mrs. Hutchinson had saved...
...Loon's breezy mnemonic method of imparting knowledge he explains earthquakes by a pile of books, what is happening to the earth's surface by half-a-dozen clean handkerchiefs, the central Spanish plateau with a soup plate, two saucers and a spoon. The inner workings of the Gulf Stream, the puzzle of which is latitude and which is longitude, are other mysteries brightly revealed...
Scattered among the other delegates were Thomas Nelson Perkins (Boston & Maine), Redfield Proctor (Vermont Marble), Alfred P. Sloan Jr. (General Motors), Cornelius Francis Kelley (Anaconda Copper), Myron C. Taylor (U. S. Steel). William Hartman Woodin (American Car & Foundry), William Wallace Atterbury (Pennsylvania R. R.), Arthur Colbraith Dorrance (Campbell Soup), Irénée du Pont (explosives), George Horace Lorimer (Satevepost), Wilfred Washington Fry (N. W. Ayer & Son), J. Howard Pew (Sun Oil), Howard Heinz (pickles), William Cooper Procter (Ivory soap), George Mathew Verity (American Rolling Mill), Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (tires), Paul Weeks Litchfield (Goodyear), James Dinsmore Tew (Goodrich), Charles...
...first day, a mushy sky spilled rain on a crowd of 3,000, scattered through grandstands built to hold 60,000. Layers of grey soup stretched to Wheeling, W. Va., delaying overnight a score of pilots in the William B. Leeds and Charles Lanier Lawrence Trophy Races which had started that morning at Roosevelt Field, L. I., and were supposed to finish that afternoon. Because those entrants were late, the only closed-course race on the day's program had to be canceled...
...wife who intends to make him U. S. Ambassador to France. Europe-junketing Senator Opal, a political Dry with a really horrible temper, who unluckily sent Mrs. Gedge a letter intended for his bootlegger, is to be the blunt, blackmailed instrument of Mrs. Gedge's scheme. "Soup" Slattery, hot on the trail of the Gedge jewels; Jane Opal, who thinks she wants an intellectual beau but really fell for Packy when she saw him play for Yale; the Vicomte de Blissac, continuous sufferer from a most unGallic thirst; all these and others converge into a crowded mesh of funny...