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Flat-topped, lopsided but swift as a cruiser, an aircraft carrier at work is an ugly, color-splashed, noisy inferno. Launching her planes from the crowded flight deck, she throbs with the rumble of warming airplane engines. Hooded men in brilliant yellow, red, blue and green uniforms (to denote their functions) swiftly work the planes forward to take-off position. Every few seconds the roar of an engine in full throttle thunders through the echoing ship as another plane takes off. Only when the last bomber is in the air and the formations shrink into the sky does she settle...
...still had their big house in Munich, entertained many U. S. engineers there. They took a vacation in Italy. In September, Rudolf Diesel set out for England to see a Diesel plant inaugurated there. He and two friends took a Channel steamer at Antwerp. They had dinner, strolled on deck, went to their staterooms. When the boat docked at Harwich, Diesel was not on board. No note, no clue, no trace of his body was ever found...
...open by a trim, broad bow, saw a tiny boat skim by, skittering off the tops of waves, pelting through others in a burst of spindrift. On her bridge they caught a quick glimpse of hooded men, goggled, drenched with spray, hanging on behind a tiny windshield. On her deck, if they got a good look, they saw four torpedoes, two glassed-in turrets housing twin machine guns. Then she was gone, a bellowing little boat that faded into the grey rain. Now & then another one would blurt past...
...shipping costs skyward. Britain is harder pressed than ever for shipping space, and has not enough warships to safeguard her own sea lanes. Yet the Moslem faithful of India this week set sail for Mecca in British ships, convoyed by the Royal Navy, paying pre-war fares ($52 for deck space, $186 first class) for the privilege. Government subsidies will offset any possible loss to the shipowners. In his resting place (halfway between heaven and earth), Mohammed the Prophet was doubtless gratified...
...last half mile down the course it was nip and tuck with the two leading eights. The Sophomores lost their advantage, regained a little of it, only to fall behind by about a half-deck length with only a hundred years remaining. Curwen's closing sprint failed by inches to catch the victorious Wagner, who stroked the jayvees most of last spring. When the two hit the finish line Wagner's oars were last in the water, and that added impetus was a winning margin...