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...however, occasionally be taken to task. It's rather disconcerting to find, for example, a Consolidated Commodore flying boat described as a consolidated (lower case c) Commodore. We hope it, and all other flying boats, are consolidated. We know only the Commodore is Consolidated. Likewise, there are many fleet training planes. There is only one model Fleet training plane...
...Balmoral, her Scotch estate. Great Victoria liked to surround herself with just such big weatherbeaten Scotsmen as Captain Robert Gilmore ("Jock") Latta of the Empress of Britain. Twenty-seven years ago, "Jock" Latta joined the Canadian Pacific fleet as fourth officer of the S. S. Montezuma, 8,360 tons, 480 ft. long, speed 9 ¾ knots. His twelfth and biggest command is the Empress of Britain, 42,500 tons, 758 ft. long, speed 25.3 knots. On her maiden voyage to Quebec she broke the Britain-to-Canada record, crossing in 5 days, 5 hr., 40 min. With other ships...
...dirigible, Los Angeles, largest of the United States Navy fleet. made am unexpected rip to Boston and vicinity shortly after dusk last night. The great ship, which is the only, one of its size in this country since the ill-fated Shenandoah disaster in 1927, circled over Cambridge bound for parts unknown...
...entirely. Black clouds hung over Connecticut. But Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who was to lead his squadron of Missouri National Guard observation planes, flew off to the rendezvous to inspect the weather. Like oldtime cavalry commanders who preferred their personal mounts to Army issue, he flew his own fleet Lockheed-Sirius to Ossining, reported fair flying conditions. At Mitchel Field, L. I., General Foulois gave the "Let's go!" signal. The show...
...meanwhile married Ivy Low, close kin to Historian Sir Sydney Low and the late Sir Maurice Low, onetime Washington correspondent of the archConservative London Morning Post. Thus Ivy Litvinov comes from the most aristocratic side of Fleet Street, has dabbled in journalism, written a mystery novel. When the Lloyd George Government (1916-22) had had some few contacts with Soviet Representative Litvinov he was arrested, exchanged for an Englishman who had been imprisoned in Russia. Anglo-Soviet relations were broken...