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...been joined by the Boston Police Strike (1919). Inasmuch as the latter event created the fame which made Calvin Coolidge Vice President, and hence President, there are not a few critics who want to dig up and rewrite the legend. The story as reconstructed by these critics brings zero credit to Mr. Coolidge. They charge...
...years afterwards wore his red shirt under his cassock. In 1915, when Italy entered the World War, he organized priests for duty as army chaplains in the mountains of the Trentino, where they carved altars out of snow and said mass in a temperature lower than zero...
...with Hispano motor 454. It took him 35 minutes to coast back to Earth. He wore electric-heated fur clothing, breathed from an oxygen bottle above 5,000 meters, used benzol fuel for the first 6,000 meters and above that gasoline. His thermometer broke at 40° below zero, Fahrenheit, and a broken oxygen bottle robbed him of one or two thousand meters more. He said: "If the weather's fair I may try it again...
...meters they stamped their feet and showed other signs of the extreme cold they were experiencing-at this altitude also telephone conversation became impossible, sound being scarcely transmissible in the rarefied air. The "flight" continued to 8,500 meters and a temperature of 30 degrees below zero centigrade. After a gradual return to normal ground conditions, the aviators stepped out smiling. Other men may not stand the test so well, and this highly scientific work may serve a most useful purpose in the selection of flying personnel...
...last January concerning likely events of the year, a common one related to the final financial collapse of Germany. Thus far, although the end has not yet been reached, their prophecies seem more and more likely of fulfilment. Not only is the rate for mark exchange swiftly approaching the zero point, but the conditions responsible for this sensational decline grow worse instead of better. At first the Reichsbank inflated its currency by the millions each week; next, the weekly increases of Reichsbank notes crept up into billions; now, the inflation is proceeding by the trillion each week. The last Reichsbank...