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...through all the seven seas; the spirit and solidity that existed, as Mr. Pulsifer rather neatly and metaphorically puts it, "before the coming of King Gasoline". To illustrate his point, the author has taken as his example the old seaport of Middlehaven, one time builder and guardian of clipper ships and salt-water heroes; and he has arrayed on one side Caleb Gurney, a character who, but for the pathos of his position and the understanding of the author, would be simply a type "wind-and-rigging" sailor; and on the other the men of country clubs and golf bags...
...Azores, 2200 miles from Newport, was sighted by our tiny vessel in 17 days. On the whole the weather was good, but one bad gulf gale spell was responsible for our going without hot food for four days. We relied almost wholly upon the wind to move our ship, although it was equipped with a small two-cylinder engine, for emergency in calms...
...people are not in danger of starvation. They are starving. They are also in a state of bankruptcy and economic chaos, while under-nourishment and tuberculosis are doing their work upon children and adults alike. American and European relief work has been nobly forwarded, but it is essential to ship food and clothing and raw material upon credit to Hamburg--and this not by private enterprise only, but as an international undertaking of the first order. Otherwise we may look to see the tragedy of a whole nation...
...public also saw the laying of a smoke screen by Sergeant Hudson in a de Haviland bomber, his ship disappearing completely from view...
...flown from the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., to Mitchel Field. A crew of 200 men seized the ropes to haul the airship to earth. But the using of 500 gallons of gas on the trip, and the higher temperature encountered on the Long Island field, gave the ship abnormal buoyancy and she rose unexpectedly from the ground. The enlisted men, when dragged a few feet from the ground, let go-as they are carefully trained to do. In his excitement, Private Aage Rasmussen, of the 62nd Aero Squadron, failed to let go; he was dragged aloft by the rope...