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...Miller Durs had their two-room bungalow set on wheels, engaged Joseph Schiro, trucking contractor, to tow7 them to Babylon. L. I. They came to a halt in East 58th Street when the driver unhitched his truck, left the bungalow stranded because a patrolman found it had no trailer license. While courts, police and lawyers bickered over contracts, licenses, and sanitation laws, the Durs cooked, ate. slept in the bungalow, got a summons for parking overtime, reached Babylon two days late...
...first woman in U. S. diplomatic history to attain ministerial rank. Joyfully asked the Copenhagen Press: "Who could understand us better than Denmark's girl friend?"-a reference to the fact that in 1931 Mrs. Owen & family toured that country with a Curtis Aerocar (a two-wheeled trailer containing a kitchenet and four bunks). Madam Minister Owen, who lost her Florida seat in the House March 4. promptly revealed that she had found some Danish ancestors who arrived in the U. S. in 1636. Said she: "I am very happy to have been assigned this post because...
When a pilot lands out of sight of his take-off he gets to a telephone, calls headquarters at Elmira Airport. Headquarters flashes his position by short-wave radio to the crew atop the ridge, and off they go with the trailer to retrieve the ship...
From Evanston, Ill., husky Wade ("Red") Woodworth had motored all the last two nights to get to Albany in time, towing his racing boat on a trailer. He had spent another night fitting out his boat-had only two hours sleep between Tuesday and Friday. Now he partly knelt, partly sat on the cushions in his bucking little ship, his red hair standing up in a crest, watching the curves of the narrow upper river between its marshy banks. Fourteenth at the start, he soon was racing for the lead with Ben Rhymer who lives beside the Hudson at Kingston...
...work of getting the 10-ton bell off the truck trailer upon which it was moved and into the shack took a group of movers over four hours. In order to lower the huge chime to the ground, a runway had to be built from the rear of the truck and skids put under the bell to roll it down to the ground. At the first attempt the great weight splintered a pair of skids six inches by eight. While this work was going on, the driver of a passing truck stopped to read the Russian inscription on the bell...