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...green coat and beret-like hat, with young Philip Mountbatten at her side, swung a bottle against the towering bow of the new Cunard White Star liner Caronia. Down the ways slid the 34,000-tonner, the biggest passenger ship launched anywhere since the war. The hull was towed to a dockyard basin, where it will need another ten months of outfitting before it is ready for service...
...plane seemed possessed of devils. It washed down on the cutter, crashed into the ship's hull and stove in its own nose. For seven hours, the cutter could do little but stand by as close as Captain Cronk dared, and make a lee as the plane's crew nervously jockeyed the Sky Queen's nose into the wind...
...night, the Sky Queen was blown 60 miles, and there was little the Bibb could do but make a lee, keep her searchlights on the plunging plane and wait for the worst. There were still 24 men and one woman aboard the plane. But the flying boat's hull stayed intact. In the morning, with the wind abating, the last of the passengers and crew were safely taken off. The cutter riddled the Sky Queen with gunfire, stood by while she burned and sank, then turned home...
...Yard: Hull, le; Nozak, it; Ingram; lg; Richards, c; Ripley, rg; Domini rb; Camick, re; Woodruff, qb; Skinner, rhb; Thayer, fb; Feder, lhb. Dunster: Parket, le; Rich, rt; Berkeley, rg; Weeks, e; Papleacos, lg: Knight, it; Graham, le; Easton, qb; Aldrich, lhb; Skinner, rhb; Manning...
...abruptly opened to contact with the world when a convict road gang bulldozes its way into the neighborhood. The daughter (Ida Lupino), a loveless, stammering slavey, runs off and hides in the woods with a fugitive convict (Dane Clark). Her malingering mother (Fay Bainter) and her embittered father (Henry Hull), forced to depend on each other, strike off the shackles of their years of hatred. The main story centers, of course, on the transfigured Miss Lupino, her violent sweetheart and their hopeless romance...