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TIME was so far from supposing that the bow of the S-51 came up "by the desire or intent of the salvage force" as to state ". . . (the) workers were astonished to see the nose of the sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves. . . ." The facts of this accident as reported by TIME do not differ materially from those cited by Captain King. None the less TIME did not explicitly state that the pumping of a small amount of air into the lifting pontoons on the day in question was but a preliminary action, not intended to produce the disastrous...
...which rolled the ships gayly. In the greysome depths eels and fishes saw the huge barnacled steel whale shift about and sway in her bed like a restive sleeper, start behemothly for the surface. On the reeling decks above workers were astonished to see the nose of the sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves and into the sunlight once again. The crews cheered. In another moment the amidships pontoons appeared. It seemed that all that remained was to blow out the stern pontoons and tow the resurrected ship and her ghastly cargo back to a Christian harbor of refuge...
...more and more becoming fashionable among wealthy folk as things to do instead of merely as things to finance. William K. Vanderbilt, amateur ichthyologist, cruised the Pacific last winter and brought home strange specimens in his yacht Ara (TIME, Apr. 12). Manufacturer Jesse Metcalf (woolens) is off to collect monster lizards at Komodo, Dutch East Indies, (TIME, March 22). George Eastman (kodaks) is in Africa hunting with his cameras (TIME, March 22). Last week, Mrs. Marshall Field of Chicago, in the role of official photographer, sailed with a Field Museum expedition bound for the game-infested interior of Brazil...
...this man and to this man's government it is now proposed to present $1,500,000,000 of the American taxpayers' money. It is to fatten this monster and strengthen his arm, to sharpen his sword, to enlarge his cannon, to increase his war fleets, that it is proposed to settle with Italy in a manner that is nothing but grand larceny perpetrated upon the American people...
...Flaming Frontier is one of the pictures which have been and will be advertised with all the super-adjectives at the picture man's command. It is a monster special massed around Custer's last stand. It helps history out by providing a survivor of this noted massacre, providing further a girl for this survivor. It is a very fine, utterly virile western picture that never just gets round to being great...