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...MENACE, famed travel diary of a U. S. reporter in Russia, won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize as "the best example of correspondence during the year" (TIME, May 11). This year Diarist Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, gunning again for the Pulitzer Prize, has stalked not through Russia but through Europe. His bag: Fighting the Red Trade Menace...
Invention had promised succor for just such a disaster. In the U. S. Lieut. Charles Bowers Momsen and in England R. H. Davis have each invented a "lung" for submarine escape. The essential parts of both devices are a small tank of compressed oxygen, an inflated bag and a mouthpiece. Connecting mouthpiece and tank is a stout tube. Thus a man escaping from a sunken submarine can breathe the minutes required for him to bob to the surface and rescue. That is, if he can get out of his deep, steel prison. Since the Momsen "lung" was invented there...
Professor Piccard blinked bewilderedly behind his spectacles at all the excitement. True, they had remained aloft longer than intended, but that was only because the gas valve had failed to work, and they were forced to wait until the cool of evening contracted the hydrogen in the balloon's bag which was only one-seventh full upon starting. Yes, it was fortunate that their oxygen held out so long. No, they suffered no hardship except heat and thirst. Half the shell of the gondola had been painted black to absorb the rays of the sun in the frigid stratosphere. Result...
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...Michipicoten, an Ontario village so small that every neighbor could testify to the event, I. Quick's house cat broke its leg last week. Mr. Quick put the cat and a stone into a stout bag, and with some neighbors walked over to the river, into which he heaved the loaded bag. It floated down the river, over the falls, into the rapids 123 feet below. The party strolled back to Mr. Quick's home. On the front porch squatted the cat, licking its broken...