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Late one night last week workmen wheeled a fleet of wheelbarrows into the RCA Building lobby, set a movable scaffold against the wall. It was no trick to get off the covering coat of cream-colored canvas. But Rivera's mural, like all true fresco, had been painted into a coat of plaster. The workmen tried to get it off in big chunks, save as much as they could. But they claimed later that once broken, the great fresco crumbled into powder which was wheeled out of the lobby to oblivion. Speedily the workmen slapped a fresh coat...
...company Cunard will turn over its fleet of 15 "ia" ships including Berengaria, Aqnitania, Franconia, Mauretania and what there is of No. 534. White Star will contribute its fleet of ten "ic" ships, including Majestic, Olympic, Homeric, Georgic and Britannic. In return Cunard will get 62% of the new stock and six directorships, White Star 38% and four directors. The Chancellor's soft voice was heard in the clause: "It is regarded by all parties hereto as a cardinal principle of the merger company that it is to be and remain under British control...
...College at Newport. From that post he was assigned to the Bureau of Aeronautics at Washington, a circumstance that gave a major twist to his career. Soon after he was sent to San Diego, given the aircraft carrier Langley and made commander of the aircraft squadron of the battle fleet. In that post he was credited with doing a masterful job in whipping the Navy's air force into an effective fighting unit. After a year he was made a rear admiral, but in spite of his rank, dignity and grey beard, he was frequently to be found...
...member of the Navy's General Board, its authority on Naval air strategy. A year ago he was made commander of the Battle Force. Last week in the annual shift of Navy posts, he was slated for the post of Commander-in-Chief of the United States Fleet-the Navy's No. 1 officer afloat. Thus for the first time will a trained master of air as well as water tactics become the supreme commander of U. S. sea forces after...
...conference in British Eastern waters was 13 years ago. Host last week in Singapore harbor aboard his flagship cruiser Kent was a rare and racy Tipperary-blooded quarter decker, Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer. He was Flag Captain in the Battle of Jutland to Admiral Jellicoe of the Grand Fleet, today commands the China Station...