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...better performance than that," he told me, and set out methodically to build the world's best steamer. He and I went to California Institute of Technology and conferred with Dr. Robert Millikan,* its president and the 1923 Nobel Prizewinner in physics. Hughes told Dr. Millikan that he wanted to employ two of his brightest engineering graduates, men with creative imagination. Dr. Millikan recommended two young men, named Burns and Lewis...
...want a steamer that will get under way in 20 seconds, starting from a cold stop," he stipulated. "With the present steamer, it takes from two to five minutes to get up steam. If I had a fire, I wouldn't be able to get them out of the garage. Second, I want a steamer that will run from Los Angeles to San Francisco on one filling of water...
...Hagjit Singh Aurora, Indian eastern front commander, said yesterday that about 7000 Pakistani troops trying to escape across the Ganges River were under air attack. He said at least one river steamer, carrying an estimated 500 Pakistani troops, had been sunk by Indian aircraft, which made over 100 sorties during...
...Pompidou, the imperial couple's routine is not markedly different from those that 1,300,000 other Japanese will have followed before the end of this year. The two travelers and their entourage of 34 will visit Notre Dame, see the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen Harbor and ride a steamer along the Rhine to gaze at the Lorelei rocks. At Buckingham Palace, Hirohito might show his Empress the bedroom where, 50 years ago, King George V padded in wearing carpet slippers and suspenders, and boomed: "Everything satisfactory...
Beginning in 1955 with an aging tramp steamer, Pao has built a fleet of 3.5 million tons, most of it in ultramodern supertankers and bulk carriers. By comparison, Niarchos controls 3.4 million tons and Onassis 4.3 million. Pao's navy has the distinct advantage of being practically brand new. But by early 1975, when some $800 million in new ships that he has already ordered are delivered, the Pao armada will total about 10 million tons. With an average age of less than 3.5 years, it will be the largest and newest private fleet on the seas...