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...land and water are engaged in helping the squadron to cross and recross the ocean. Every scheduled stopping point and an emergency station at Greenland will be manned by crews of meteorologists, radiomen, mechanics. About 15 cruisers and trawlers and even two submarines (good at snaking through drift ice) patrol the course. Last link in the preparations which held up the take-off last week was establishment of the base at Labrador. The supply ship Alicia had not yet crashed the late icejam from the Strait of Belle Isle to Cartwright...
...planes for barnstormers and intrepid sportsmen. As early as 1913 he got the first of the government contracts on which he has since thrived. In 1917 came the first of the Martin bombers, first U. S.-designed airplane for Liberty engines. Since the War, Martin has produced hundreds of patrol boats and torpedo planes for the Navy, bombers for the Army, from his former Cleveland factory and his superb new plant near Baltimore. An unsuccessful mail plane was Martin's only non-military venture lately until this year when Pan American Airways submitted specifications for a huge riving boat...
...news that Ortiz was coming, the rebels flickered among the hills like fireflies. They attacked a Rural Guard patrol in Sancti Spiritus, killed three guardsmen. Twenty-five of them quietly overran and pillaged the sympathetic village of Taguasco. Others derailed a Havana-Santa Clara City passenger train, dynamited railway bridges at Jiqui, Donato and Tarafa. They looked for reinforcements, ammunition and money from the Cuban exiles in Miami. Cuba's onetime President Mario Menocal had disappeared from Miami. Some said (but few believed) he was on the high seas with the men and guns the Santa Clara rebels wanted...
...Langley Field. Va. The TC-13 is 200 ft. long. Beneath her belly she carries a 40-ft. control car equipped with four folding bunks, and a galley containing an electric stove and electric coffee urn. A crew of six could be accommodated for a four or five-day patrol flight. There are two 375-h.p. engines for propulsion, three auxiliary engines for operation of equipment. One of the three generates current for the radio when the ship is resting on land or water. (The control car is shaped like a boat.) Another engine operates a blower to force...
There are now in use instruments of 24, 16, 6, and 4 inch apertures besides two patrol cameras. Every clear night a group goes from Cambridge to Oak Ridge to take photographs because the conditions of light and atmosphere there are superior to those surrounding Cambridge. During the past week cloudy conditions have made these observations difficult. The 24 inch instrument is now testing a photoelectric cell that will be used in measuring the luminosity of faint stars. This is also the instrument that will open the World's Fair in case it is cloudy at the Lick Observatory...