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...armada, nothing less, has taken the water against the rum ships now lying off New York harbor. With the balmy days of Spring, when visibility is high and nights are short, fifty guard ships have been mustered, each one of which will shadow a liquor ship and prevent, it possible, any intercourse with the shore. The rum fleet is to be besieged, blockaded on the high seas, until each ship is forced to play other waters in search of food...
...Down the weekend estuary sailed President and Mrs. Coolidge with Secretaries Mellon, Hoover, Publisher Frank E. Noyes (President of the Associated Press), Democrat Arthur P. Dennis (new member of the Tariff.Commission). Their ship went a little out to sea in preparation for a possible June cruise to the summer White House at Swampscott, Mass. ¶Mrs. Ethel Barrymore Colt paid an hour's call on Mrs. Coolidge, then chatted a bit with the President. ¶Mrs. Coolidge set to work on the $50,000 repairing of the White House. The Green Room has faded, must be done over. The elevator...
...British airship R-33, sister ship of the famous K34 which crossed the Atlantic in 1920, repeated, last week, the feat of the U. S. airship Shenandoah, which, last year, went on an unintentional voyage (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924). The R33 was moored to the mast at Pulham airdrome in Norfolk, England, during one of the worst gales known to the windswept English coast. Under the terrific pull of a 50-mile-an-hour wind, she tore away the arm of the mooring mast. The damage inflicted was even worse than in the case of the, Shenandoah. The first...
When the R-33 broke loose, she plunged wildly down by the bow, then nosed up with equal violence. To on, lookers from the ground, the great ship appeared doomed. Fortunately, she had an efficient crew of 20 men on board and two days' fuel. Lieutenant Booth, , the officer in charge, had never commanded an airship before. Within two minutes after the accident, he had two engines running, the wireless in operation, and the airship in complete control. With the British gunboat Godetia to guide her, with every vessel in the North Sea alert, the airship fought a tremendous fight...
...would rip still further. Men went aloft in sailor style, lowered a rope ladder over the bow, gather up the loose ends of the flapping cover and bunched them , together. They made untidy balls but prevented the fabric from ripping further. In the first burst of the gale, the ship traveled stern first for many miles, rolling constantly and threatening to head down into the water while the crew worked in life belts. Even when the return journey was possible, she sailed painfully at not more than ten miles an hour over the rough sea. When the airship got home...