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...simply reported the crash, and the rescue of four men. Immediately the Coast Guard sent cutters dashing to the position, 20 miles off Barnegat Lightship. The cruiser U. S. S. Portland steamed for the scene. Weatherbound, airplane pilots chafed and champed until dawn. Within a few hours a fleet of rescue ships were circling by sea and air around the Phœbus. They found nothing but small bits of wreckage. The Coast Guard destroyer Tucker took from the Phœbus the four men it had rescued, steamed with them to Brooklyn Navy Yard. They were Lieut.-Commander Wiley...
...largest. Its Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung (weekly) has a circulation of some 1,750,000. The circulations of its Vossische Zeitung (daily), Berliner Morgenpost and Berliner Zeitung am Mittag total some 1,000,000. It also publishes many a fortnightly and monthly magazine. thousands of cheap, popular books. A fleet of airplanes distributes its daily and weekly publications to principal German cities. Though Louis Ullstein and other members of the family tried to forget their Jewish origin, both firm and family have lately been targets for Jew-hating Nazis...
...Maria Ferdinando Francesco. Duke of the Abruzzi, Prince of Savoy, 60, cousin of Italy's King Vittorio Emmanuele, onetime (1915-17) commander-in-chief of Italy's navy, 1932 president of the merged Italia Line; of arteriosclerosis; in Abruzzi City, Italian Somaliland, Africa. During the War his fleet saved the Serbian Army, fighting hopelessly with its back to the sea. In 1922 Albania offered him its throne...
...machines which traveled so fast they were practically invisible, could shear through the toughest steel as if it were butter. When the Directors finally made up their minds to arrest him Knox and his rebels had disappeared. From a lonely Arctic island Knox defied I. A. & A., smashed their fleet and the pax aeronautica to hopeless fragments. When his followers discovered that Knox thought himself sent by heaven to destroy the world, in horror they tried to halt the spreading catastrophe...
...sudden burst of altruism, but the effect of outside pressure. In short, Deladier and has advisers are afraid of the tacit coalition between England, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Hungary. That Italy is willing to cooperate with Great Britain seems quite logical, in consideration of the facts that the British fleet controls the Mediterranean, that MacDonald is holding out a tempting offer of colonies which Italy never received for her part in the World War, and that 11 Duce has been industriously hating France since he came to power. England's interests in curtailing the French are plain enough...