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...river at 20 m. p. h. People writhed on the deck, lay panting below, gasping, retching, vomiting. Captain Turner steered close to the dock at Alexandria, six miles from Washington, shouted his news as he went by. Alexandrians called the Washington police. Every ambulance in the city, fire trucks, patrol wagons, taxicabs and private cars rushed to the wharf. The Charles Macalester steamed in, her decks packed with sick, prostrate picnickers. Children wailed, women sobbed. A woman on the dock became hysterical, had to be led away. Stretcher bearers, walking carefully on the horrid decks, bore away 54 of those...
...ship is intended for long-distance patrol flight, heavy bombing. Except for fabric coverings of wing and tail surfaces, it is built of metal, principally aluminum. Four Curtiss engines will be mounted on the 100-ft. wing. Hull length: 70 ft. (DO-X dimensions: wingspread 157 ft.; length...
...most brilliant successes in the Nicaraguan campaign," President Hoover awarded the Navy Cross to Lieut. Samuel S. Jack, U. S. Marine Corps, of Glendale, Ariz. In April 1931, Aviator Jack had bombed a rebel camp at Puerto Cabezas, later directed a relief patrol to the siege of Logtown, all under heavy fire...
...officers & men and 350 vessels of the Coast Guard is saving lives & property, not shooting 'leggers. They bring the only touch of civilization to remote corners of Alaska, succor Mississippi River flood victims, rescue bathers on the Great Lakes, conduct the international North Atlantic iceberg patrol which was instituted in 1914 after the Titanic disaster. Last week the Coast Guard got a new commandant...
...Radio Patrol (Universal) is a story of the radio-car police. Robert Armstrong and Russell Hopton, rookies at the police training school, painfully learn their lessons from Sergeant Sidney Toler, get rough &-tough themselves. At the graduation dance Armstrong takes Hopton's best girl, Lila Lee, later marries her. The two cops work together in the same radio patrol car. Armstrong takes bribe money because his wife is going to have a baby. When Armstrong tries to drive the car out of the district to leave the bank-robbers a clear field, Hopton forces him to drive back, fight...