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...read your magazine called TIME at various clubs and hotels on my stops from coast to coast and the idea came to me today it would be an excellent plan if you would allow me to run a weekly checker column in it. Am well known throughout the entire English-speaking world and am sure it would enable you to get many men subscribers in clubs as well as at private homes. Can give you one of the finest weekly columns in the world if you care...
Last week two Coast Guard cutters, the Tampa, the Modoc, sailed north to play "I spy" with icebergs. They are to patrol steamship lanes, chart location of icebergs, figure the speed and direction of iceberg-drift, issue warning to Atlantic liners. Though equipped with mines designed to blow icebergs to pieces, they often find bergs which explosives can hardly injure. An iceberg may contain 36,000,000 tons of ice, eight-ninths of which are below the surface of the water. When dynamited, a giant berg merely loses a few large chunks, which then become small bergs, or "growlers...
...engine plunged hissing from its supports into 60 feet of water. Sick at heart, Commander de Pinedo cabled Premier Mussolini for another plane in which to carry on, for the glory of Fascismo, his four-continent itinerary, of which there remained to be completed a flight to the Pacific coast and up it to Seattle, thence east via Chicago, New York, Boston, Newfoundland and the Azores to Rome. Word came back that an identical ship would reach New York late this month, ready...
...carried the equivalent of one ton of freight 49 billion miles (264 round trips between earth and sun) and one passenger 6 1/2 billion miles (35 round trips between earth and sun). This year the "Pennsy" is making an exceptionally strong campaign for passenger traffic between the Atlantic Coast and Chicago...
...Bound. Nance O'Neil was last week seen sobbing her way through gloomy Fog-Bound, a piece of Long Island coast drama by Hugh Stange. The plot is: 1) Hester tells mother that she wants to marry Lem Ross instead of Capt. Ezra Tuttle because she loves Lem but not Ezra. Mother faints. 2) Hester marries Ezra. He is cruel. 3) Eighteen years later Lem returns, wants Hester to run away and live in sin. She refuses on account of daughter born between scenes. Lugubrious Fog-Bound is lightened by Miss O'Neil's portrayal of Hester...