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Their earth inductor compass had fits of running wild, their radio had become disabled, they were fast running out of gasoline-when suddenly at 3 a. m. they saw the sea-coast and the flicker of a lighthouse beacon beneath them. That was the moment when Commander Byrd scribbled: "We are going to land." It was safer to drop into the sea than to crash into unyielding, un known, fog-blanketed land, he decided...
...long been Mr Mitchell's conviction that airplane development has made battleships obsolete, that Navy men have retarded aviation progress lest the fleets of the future should be exclusively fleets of the air. During last month's Army-Navy war game off the coast of New England (TIME, May 30), Mr Mitchell sniffed at the folly of continuing to base military strategy on the operations of "archaic" warships, but his observations were not widely published. Last week, however, the failure of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to function properly when the aviator attempted...
...continued yellow fever surveys and studies in Nigeria and on the Gold Coast...
...Miles. Rum-laden, the steamer Underwriter bobbed some months ago along the Atlantic Ocean, 34 miles from land. Rum-seeking, a Coast Guard vessel bobbed after. Eventually the Coast Guard boat caught the Underwriter, took from her 811 cases of whiskey...
Commander Nicholas H. Heck, earthquake expert of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, assembled seismograph records, studied them, decided that the dire disturbance had been in western China or in Tibet, where population is thin, communication slow. He waited to hear if mountains had toppled, lonely caravans been swallowed...