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Frenchmen were proud last week that they had lost no submarine since 1928, whereas the British Navy had lost three. The French first-class submarine Promethée of 2,000 tons (estimated cost $2,000,000) was maneuvering on the surface of the English Channel near Cherbourg, with several French bluejackets standing on her deck. Suddenly the Promethée began to go down by the stern.. Since her hatches were open, water poured in and she sank like a stone, carrying 62 men to their death. Her commander, a Lieut, du Mesnil, stepped out of the conning...
...Potomac from Washington last week for the annual show of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the one who had most fun was 60-year-old Pioneer Airman Orville Wright. Last year at NACA's laboratory at Langley Field. Va. he had seen the new half-mile testing channel through which seaplane hulls are whisked 60 m.p.h by an electric towing car. He had thought about it many times since then. Last week he gazed at it again, finally asked if he might have a ride. With Dr. Charles Frederick Marvin, 73. chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau...
Kindly give me your authority or the source of your information for the statements pp. 19 & 20 of the March 7 issue, concerning the existence of a chain of subterranean forts which guard the French frontier from the English Channel to tl e Mediterranean...
...Ramsay MacDonald whose right eye is now causing him trouble. The Prime Minister's left eye was operated upon for glaucoma (hardening of the eyeball) in February by Surgeon Duke-Elder. Last week Surgeon Duke-Elder did not fly with Scot MacDonald but followed him by rail and Channel packet...
...there is no reason why it should not serve as the nucleus for such a group. If it can prove itself in "Napoleon Intrudes" it might well come to fill the position vacated by the Cambridge School of the Drama and eventually it might become such a real channel of education as has been described...