Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dickerson N. Hoover,* supervising inspector general of the U. S. Steamboat Inspection Service, gravely put his name last week at the end of a long document. It was a review of all the evidence given at the inquiry which he conducted into the sinking of the Lamport & Holt liner Vestris off the Virginia Capes on Nov. 12, with a loss of in. It blamed the man whose death, clinging to the bridge of the doomed ship, has been called another saga of the sea: Captain Carey...
...emergency, Inspector Hoover stated, loss of life was caused by the "absence of a strong directing hand...
...Inspector Hoover's conclusions were in agreement with those given in U.S. District Court before Commissioner Francis A. O'Neill, by two government experts assigned to the independent investigation there...
...report, which was forwarded to the Department of Commerce, Inspector Hoover denied the prevailing story that the Vestris shipped water first through an illsealed coalport. He declared that it was much more likely that water first entered the vessel through a broken scupper or sanitary pipe. Not until she had a list of 13 degrees or more would the coal ports be submerged...
...Flight into the U. S. (TIME, March 7, 1927). Works of art are duty free. But Sculptor Brancusi's bird had neither head, feet nor feathers. It was four and a half feet of bronze which swooped up from its base like a slender jet of flame. Customs Inspector Kracke said it was not art; merely "a manufacture of metal . . . held dutiable at 40% ad valorem." The press bantered, jibed. Indignant modernists wrote abstruse, defensive paragraphs. Sculptor Brancusi complained to the Customs Court...