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...Southampton at 155 m.p.h. Every passenger will have a bed, converted from 77 daytime seats, a place at one of the five tables in the dining room. For newlyweds one of the clipper's 15 rooms has been set aside as a "honeymoon suite." Stripped of its passenger gear, the Clipper can carry 20 fighters, eight tons of armament or bombs-no small advantage in the eyes of the U. S. Government experts who will license it after testing...
...business expired under his son, quiet, broken-nosed, gold-toothed Patrick Joseph ("Patsy"; Cain. At the height of its run, Cain's was five floors deep in trellises and pillars, spangles and swords, chariot wheels from Ben Hur, a papier-mache elephant from Face the Music, highfalutin gear from Shakespeare revivals, tinsel & gilt from Follies, Scandals, Gaieties. On one single night in 1905 John Cain moved eight shows (94 loads, 654 pieces). His son was always on hand for closings, and the sight of him in the audience required quarts of brandy to steady the actors' nerves...
...large aircraft there is more to do in the cockpit than can reasonably be expected of anybody. . . . There is a multiplicity of wheels, buttons, knobs, gadgets, instruments to be checked, landing gear. ""wing flaps, radio communication, navigation problems, fuel consumption, ground speed...
Back in Inglewood, Calif. Cortlandt Hill had a pair of plywood passenger cars which resembled ordinary units of a streamlined duralumin train, but which were mounted on their running gear in a manner which he and several partners claimed was brand-new for railroad cars. Invented by William Van Dorn and Dr. F. C. Lindvall of California Institute of Technology, who have been working on the cars for the past two years in an abandoned Northrup Aviation hangar, the coaches are sprung on a "pendulum" principle by which four heavy vertical coil springs above each...
Fishing will be done with otter trawls. Blake trawls, and, off bottom, with large ring nets. Most of the trawling will probably be done in depths greater than 100 fathoms because in shoal water much gear would be destroyed by coral...