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Fred Wallace, veteran diver, who feels light-headed without his 140 pounds of gear, told about another victim he pulled up from Davy Jones' hideout...
...measured kilometer, with a 375 h.p. motor. And on Christmas day he was successful, and the bouillabaisse flowed yellow at the feasts given in his honor. A few days later he tried again, this time for the record for 500 kilometers in closed circuit, but trouble, first with landing gear, later with oil circulation, forced him to give up the attempt, and now he and his plane have returned to Paris. But he will return again soon for another try and he may succeed...
...which spur into its West Homestead plant outside Pittsburgh. Castings weighing 165 tons have been poured in its foundries and machined in its shops. One of its prides is a gigantic press built for a Navy armor works that will exert a pressure of 14,000 tons. It has gear nobbing and planing machines for finishing gear wheels up to 17-ft. in diameter...
...blamed the crash of its famed Douglas Airliner Uiver (Stork) in the Syrian Desert six weeks ago on lightning (TIME, Dec. 31). According to KLM's experts who examined the wreckage, Uiver hit the ground at full flying speed, switches on, throttles open, stabilizer set for cruising, landing gear retracted. The gasoline fire which consumed most of the plane destroyed most of the evidence. But tools and other metal parts untouched by the flames showed marks of extreme local heat and partial melting. And the bodies of six victims found outside the machine, likewise untouched by flames, showed typical...
...that on both occasions he found it "a little stiff, but all right in every way." Second Assistant Engineer Parry testified that the Mohawk's steering motor had frozen during cold weather a year ago, forced the helmsman to bring her into port with the emergency hand steering gear. But he was sure it had not frozen last week...