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Antofagasta. Down out of the mountains which are Bolivia went 70 dignitaries and notables (including many ladies) from La Paz, across the nitrate plain which is Chile and so aboard the Maryland in the harbor of Antofagasta. Mr. & Mrs. Hoover lunched them all on the quarterdeck. In his speech, Mr. Hoover stated that the history of Bolivia and its hero, Simon Bolivar, are as familiar to U. S. schoolchildren as to Bolivian schoolchildren...
...blue sky above the Indian Ocean espied, last week, a long, low, incredibly slender ship, darting with splendid speed toward Aden, the Red Sea, Suez. A literate seagull might have spelled out upon the vessel's spume flecked prow the name H. M. S. Enterprise. Aboard and often on the bridge was a young man who is called by his Royal family simply "David." As he paced the bridge, engines of 80,000 horsepower thrust the frail 7,600-ton cruiser across the placid Indian Ocean at automobile speed: 40 m.p.h. Only a seaplane could have sped faster...
While whistles, bells and yells made farewell din in the narrow harbor of Dunedin, New Zealand, last week, Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's South Pole Expedition started from that port for a year and a half in Antarctica. He, his scientists and able seamen were aboard the bark City of New York. There was no breeze flirting down Dunedin's forested mountains to tap-tap her sails; so her mateship the steamer Eleanor Boiling hauled her down the narrow Otago Inlet like a puffing rustic leading his wench through a lane...
...Navy chief yeoman's cap, the chief yeoman of U. S. foreign trade and diplomacy whiled away the cruising days with constitutionals around the deck, reading detective stories, reclining on a cabin lounge to chat with the 20 newsmen aboard, observing naval mysteries such as range-finding and fire-control in the gun turrets, and in dictating memoranda to several stenographers. Mrs. Hoover sat on deck, knitting...
That inferiority complex betrayed itself in many New York papers, last week, from parenthetical bad-boy chuckles to grandiose editorial anathema, in stories of a tilt between John Pierpont Morgan and ship-news reporters and cameramen, aboard the Olympic, docking 16 hours late from Southampton...