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...Tray had his day. Not to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd for his spectacular flight to the North Pole and back last spring at Spitzbergen but to U. S. Mail Pilot Shirley J. Short, for having flown 2,000 hours with valuable cargo in all kinds of weather and with never a serious accident or lapse in schedule, did the International League of Aviators last week award the Harmon Trophy for the best performance in 1926 by a U. S. flyer. To Pilot Georges Pelleder D'Oisy for his long distance flights (France to Africa, Paris to Tokyo) went...
...Signer Mussolini's liners, already christened by rumor the Duce and the Rex. Allegedly an Italian inventor has conceived the idea of supplementing the stern propellers with additional propulsive apparatus to be placed along the sides of the new ships. Reputedly Signor Mussolini is ready to sacrifice all cargo space to engines, subsidize the ships, and use them only for express passenger and mail service. At such a cost-and it would run into millions yearly-Italy could provide herself with two super-ships, presumably so designed as to be converted into warboats of great potency in time...
Since he bought his first ship in 1889 Owen Cosby Philipps, now Lord Kylsant, has pioneered in everything that would get ships faster across the damp places and keep their human cargoes warm and dry, and their cargoes of foodstuffs dry and cold. He pushed the adoption of a twin propeller drive. He was ahead with refrigerator cargo ships, reaping millions from frozen Argentine beef. All his life he could have said with Kipling's shipmaster of his competitors: They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind, And I left 'em sweating...
...light cruisers; then the submarines- almost a hundred of them-with their vanguard creeping midget-like through the yawning Gaillard Cut;* then another five miles of 106 pert destroyers impatient for the open sea; finally the submarine chasers, the mine sweepers, the airplane carriers, the colliers, the oilers, the cargo ships, and the last hospital ship struggling in the Gatun Locks. And up above 234 airplanes would frolic around the Los Angeles. Undoubtedly Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett would be on board the dirigible, would look down upon the 40-mile ribbon, would say: "Ah What a Navy!"† echoing...
Suddenly a thudding, thudding, tearing explosion, welled from below decks. Detonating en masse the munitions cargo set the ship afire and blew it simultaneously to splinters. Within five minutes 1,200 of the 1,500 mercenaries perished in the deadly inferno. Three hundred, lucky, swam ashore...