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May 14, 1929

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PARIS PLANE SPEEDS 150 MILES AN HOUR IN FIRST TEST HERE; Craft Tuning Up for Atlantic Flight Outraces Pursuers at Roosevelt Field. RISES FROM SOGGY FIELD Three Frenchmen Take turns at Controls and Spectators Praise Their Work. RADIO SET IN GOOD SHAPE Motor is Started With Harness and Cables--Fuel Mixture Is Strained Twice Other Airplanes Distanced. Fuel Strained Twice. PARIS PLANE SPEEDS 150 MILES AN HOUR Lotti Says Plane Is Ready. FRENCH FLIERS TEST MONOPLANE HERE FOR HOP TO PARIS.

By Special to The New York Times.Times Wide World Photo.Times Wide World Photo

Test of plane; pors of fliers; illus of plane

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LOCKOUT OF 75,000 WORKERS ORDERED BY BUILDERS HERE; FIVE-DAY WEEK RESCINDED; PAY RISE ALSO CANCELED Halting of $100,000,000 Work to Be Effective at 5 P.M., Tomorrow. BAD FAITH LAID TO UNION Employers Charge Failure to Abide by Promise to Call Off Sympathy Strikes. BUT WORKERS DENY PLEDGE Council Will Meet Today to Endorse Ultimatum by Halkett to Builders. Employers Decry Conditions. BUILDING MEN ORDER LOCKOUT OF 75,000 Origin in Electrical Crisis. Deny Promise to End Strikes. Charges by Employers.

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Lockout ordered; 5-day wk rescinded

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Notable Births

Barbara Branden

1929Barbara Branden, Canadian-American author (died 2013)[†]

Barbara Joan Branden was a Canadian-American writer, editor, and lecturer, known for her relationship and subsequent break with novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand.

Henry McGee

1929Henry McGee, English actor and singer (died 2006)[†]

Henry James Marris-McGee was a British actor, best known as straight man to Benny Hill for many years. McGee was also often the announcer on Hill's TV programme, delivering the upbeat intro "Yes! It's The Benny Hill Show!". He was familiar to British children throughout the 1970s as "Mummy" in the Sugar Puffs commercials, the catchphrase of which was "Tell them about the honey, Mummy".

Gump Worsley

1929Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2007)[†]

Lorne John "Gump" Worsley was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, 'Gump' was given his nickname because friends thought he looked like a comic-strip character Andy Gump.