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...Here comes Mills." Then: "Here comes Skeel. Note his speed." Down from a great height swooped the plane, catapulting toward the starting line in a wide arc. Then tragedy. The machine was seen to disintegrate, like a cardboard toy. A wing broke completely away, fluttered down. The crippled fuselage spun, dove precipitately behind a row of trees. Flying sticks and clods of earth, visible to the crowd a mile and a half away, told of Skeel's instant death-the first fatality in all five years of the Pulitzer velocity tests. Lieut. Mills' time of 216.55 m.p.h...
Meantime the cotton-mill owner, who had become optimistic, saw prospects of being able to sell fabrics spun of 21? cotton, received a severe jolt when the price went up to 24?. The stagnation in the textile trade has been due to a "consumers' strike" against the high prices charged for cotton goods. The refusal of consumers to buy at high prices cannot be changed until the raw cotton itself declines. Retailers refuse to stock up; jobbers are wary; and as a result unemployment is prevalent in the New England mill towns...
James K. Hackett, actor: " Golfing at Fontainebleau, I completely missed a ball, spun around several times, fell heavily on my right side, and broke my arm in two places above the elbow...
Five years later the trio reassembles to audit the proceeds of their gamble. After going over the books for two acts the girl decides the coin spun in her favor. The odd man seeks solace with a finale flapper...
...minute newspaper" started in New York is, like the three minute egg, another tribute by the world to the man in a hurry. The bustle and clatter of energy lavishly expended sets up a sympathetic vibration in every true American heart. Solicitous brains have spun for the busy man to give him a telephone and radio, a motor car and airplane, ready-to-wear clothes, and a meal reduced to seconds in a catch-as-catch-can restaurant...