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...five tons of gold, 45 tons of silver in her hold, valued at over $5,000,000. The next evening, as she was passing the Island of Ushant off Finistere in a fog as thick as last week's, she was rammed amidships by the French cargo steamer Seine, went down in half an hour. Many have been the attempts to find, salvage her. The most important until last week was that of a Swedish Captain Hedbach...
...truck careened through the streets of Langhorne, Pa., was halted by a speed officer; The driver paid $10 for breaking the speed law. His cargo: the law library of Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice...
...fabric, one of her six motors disabled as the result of a side-flight over Toronto, Ottawa and Niagara, and with nine English and Canadian news correspondents aboard. Freight and express revenues estimated at $500,000 had to be rejected in accordance with Air Ministry orders. Only excess cargo was a bunch of peonies for King George from Viscount Willingdon, governor-general; and a box of Canadian peaches for the Prince of Wales from Prime Minister Ferguson of Ontario. The homeward flight was uneventful until the second night when severe headwinds were accompanied by a deluge which overflowed the ballast...
That the E obtained its liquor cargo at sea was obvious. As all the world knows, the ragged squadron comprising Rum Row lurks twelve miles off New York Harbor. But no one on the tug M. Moran, which towed the E, or on barge P, which was part of the tow, had seen anything untoward happen. A Federal inspector stationed on the M. Moran to see that the swill was dumped out far enough had nothing to report, but was exonerated by the harbor authorities because after the dumping he slept "as is the custom of Federal inspectors on such...
...bags from the flames, the mail is surely lost, there being no perfected means of dumping the bags in flight in an emergency.* Post Office officials eyed with interest an experiment begun last week by National Air Transport and Railway Express Agency, with a fireproof and heat-proof cargo pouch developed by Johns-Manville Corp. This new bag was said to withstand a fire hot enough to melt sheet-metal and fuse pipes, without allowing even the sealing wax on letters inside to soften...