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Outward-bound to Rotterdam with a treacherous cargo of scrap-iron last week, the 5,815-ton Greek freighter Tzenny Chandris had barely cleared the port of Morehead City, N. C. when in the lash of a whining nor'easter she sprang a leak. After a three-day battle against heavy seas, the boat was in bad shape off Cape Hatteras. her frightened crew of 28 begged Captain George Coufopandelis to flash an S. O. S. to one of the several vessels which passed by. But he ordered them back to the failing pumps, confident the old freighter, bought...
...technique requires an electrical gadget whose invention may bring Dr. Burr a Nobel Prize. In a box small enough to be carried around are four different kinds of electric batteries, a delicate galvanometre, two radio vacuum tubes, eleven resistors, one grid leak and four switches. "The actual construction should be undertaken by an experienced mechanic who is thoroughly familiar with radio set construction," says Dr. Burr, who is prepared to show any proper investigator a sketch of the wiring diagram...
...second-class, in the Jim Crow car. When the conductor threatened to stop the train and have him arrested, he gave in, fumed in the Jim Crow car for four hours. When he reached his destination Congressman Mitchell said nothing of the incident and news of it did not leak out. Shortly after his arrival at Hot Springs he received a warm letter of welcome from Arkansas' Governor Bailey and letters from Little Rock's acting Mayor and Chamber of Commerce president, welcoming him to their city for a speech he was scheduled to make there after...
Inter-House crew almost received a severe setback Thursday when the Adams shell sprung a leak and nearly went to the bottom. Shamed Gold Coasters successfully kept the news under cover until last night...
...Nature. Long ago the idea of diverting the river through tunnels was discarded as too expensive and too risky, and cellular coffer dams of sheet steel were built to keep the river out of the excavation area. Three weeks ago one of these crumpled and water poured through the leak. The engineers tried vainly to stem the flow with earth, gravel, brush. Then they thought of volcanic ash. When this is moistened it swells- like oatmeal-to 15 times the dry volume, tightly plugging every crack & cranny. Tons of the puffy paste were poured into the breach and the flow...