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Flyers and plane were hauled back aboard the Hermes which steamed for Shanghai, where the plane was to be repaired...
...little stairway into the control cabin: Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls, Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zepplin, his vice president Designer Karl Arnstein, and many another. In all there are 113 persons aboard, more than a dirigible has ever carried...
...Aboard the vessel matters run smoothly. No attempt is made to speed the motors or submit the craft to stress; this is the most elementary of a series of tests. The radioman flashes to the White House the Akron's first message, in reply to a radiogram signed "Lou Henry Hoover" who christened the ship (TIME, Aug. 10). A dinner of broiled chicken, salad, ice cream, cake and coffee is served from the galley. President Paul Weeks Litchfield does not eat. Says he later: "I was too excited. I don't get to ride in the world...
...orchestra played this summer aboard the Aquatania, Mauretania and other Cunarders. They sailed June 17 on the Aquatania with the third varsity crew which was bound for the Henley races in England. Among the celebrities which the orchestra came in contact with was Professor Laski who was popular as chairman of a charity ball committee. Coming back from a cruise to Nova Scotia, the Mauretania smashed all records in a thrilling race against time...
...kill rats hidden within ships, after every known person and economically valuable creature aboard has been removed, hatches, ports and other openings are tightly closed. In every closed space hydrocyanic gas, instantly fatal to animal life, is released.** European sanitarians have been doing that. But their methods have not exterminated every rat aboard ship. In Manhattarn they learned the necessity of diligence in tracing rat droppings to rat nests between beams, in pipe coverings, under floors, over ceilings. Into every hole into which a rat may squeeze, deadly gas must be sprayed. After fumigation the ship must be aerated, dead...