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...over the aerial defense of the U. S. seacoast. Each service claims this duty by right, insists it can do a better job than the other repelling an offshore enemy from the air. Last week this argument flared up again when the Army Air Corps tried and failed to sink with bombs a target ship off the Virginia Capes...
...Field, flew around for four hours and returned to make a forced landing 25 mi. from home. Observers aboard Coast Guard craft near the target declared the Army pilots never even found the Mt. Shasta. The bombers retorted they found the freighter all right but did not try to sink her because of bad weather...
Seven long, lean years have depressed the U. S. feather industry. So low did prices sink that even ostrich feathers, an aristocrat of the group, were being stuffed into pillows and mattresses. During the last few months, however, a great revival has been started by the feather-capped Empress Eugenie hats (TIME, Aug. 3). Raw ostrich which recently brought $15 a pound last week fetched $50 to $60. Lesser feathers showed equally heartening gains, except for the duck division. So overproduced are duck feathers that last week a Long Island dealer in them asked the State Department if a sale...
...decline in automotive steel buying had set in strongly.† Last week's rise, slight as it was, in the face of all these unfavorable factors may well have been a portent that steel production has reached the irreducible minimum, the rock bottom below which no depression can sink...
...November 1914 she fought a single-handed engagement with three Russian predreadnoughts, had her bottom ripped open by two submerged mines. But the Sultan Selim did not sink. She limped to Constantinople where German engineers built cofferdams around her, patched her up and sent her to sea again where she promptly bumped into another mine. In 1917 she was severely bombed by British aviators. Battered but indestructible, the Goeben-Sultan Selim remained afloat. In 1918 with the Breslau, the patch-bottomed Sultan Selim sank the British monitors Raglan and M 28. She was mined again and beached by her commander...