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...Latin America. Aboard the Sequoia he had to wait a half-hour for his son James to arrive by army plane from Boston and join his party. To kill time he summoned Col. Richard P. ("Terrible Terry") Williams, commander of the 7th Regiment, to the Sequoia's deck, discussed the Cuban situation with him, told him what would be expected of him and his men if sent to intervene...
...Pilot Van Orman, champion of two Bennett races and a veteran of many others, it would not have been strange to find himself at sea. Once in a European race he was carried out in the dead of night, signaled a passing steamer with a flashlight, alighted safely on deck...
...Virginia Capes were the hurricane's next objective. Twenty-five miles off shore it swooped down upon the Old Dominion liner Madison, Norfolk-bound out of New York. A 70-ft. wave carried away the Madison's forward deck house, snapped her booms, stove in her ventilators, snatched off three lifeboats and flooded the cabins. The second mate and quartermaster were washed overside, two of the crew badly injured. Captain William Heath hove to, sent out an SOS. The 37 passengers were corralled in the main saloon at 5 a. m. To the wallowing Madison went the Coast...
...activity of one of Germany's largest shipyards For the completed seadrome a floating dock was borrowed, effectively remodeled, towed out into the Baltic. There it did much to substantiate the arguments against real seadromes. In the first storm encountered it snapped its anchor cables. For the flying deck scenes, for which the dock was unsuited, the company chartered the dot-like island of Oie. With 4,000 tons of steel, 60 men and ten weeks time, a platform 1,000 ft. long and 450 ft. wide was built over the island and its 17 inhabitants. On the platform...
...courtesy when his mahogany-colored son-in-law, Ras (Prince) Desta Demtu arrived in Washington in all his African splendor. Told off to escort him was the State Department's Jefferson Patterson. Only with the greatest difficulty had an Ethiopian flag (green, yellow, red) been dug up to deck the Mayflower Hotel, the Ethiopian national anthem orchestrated for the reception by the Army band at the Union Station. The bowlegged little Prince with curly whiskers first called at the White House wearing a two-foot shako of lion's mane. A large crowd awaiting General Italo Balbo cheered...