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...made friends with the peaceful natives, did many queer, unsoldierly things, such as acting as emergency midwife and going to voodoo meetings. Several times he visited the island of La Gonave, which had a bad name but attracted Sergeant Wirkus. He put in for the post of resident sub-district commander of the island, and in April...
...Gonave (though Wirkus did not know it) was a socialistic matriarchate, ruled by Head Queen Ti Memenne, fat, squaw-like but executive. Under her were various sub-queens who presided over societies "which were actually labor unions." Ti Memenne took a great liking to Wirkus, treated him like a son, and used all her considerable influence to back up his authority. Another thing Wirkus did not know was that he shared the name "Faustin" with one of Haiti's black emperors, Faustin Soulouque...
...There are indications that the world wide depression in business ... is sub siding and that the upturn is beginning." So last week wrote President James Augustine Farrell of United States Steel Corp. to members of the National Foreign Trade Council of which he is chairman. He added that the Council estimates that the dollar volume of total world trade (measured by exports) dropped from $33,500,000,000 in 1929 to $27,000,000,000 last year. Amount of this drop measured in volume and not dollars...
...enable the vessel to skid against the under side of polar ice. From the blunt, concrete-reinforced bow projects a long tubular feeler like the solitary tusk of the male narwhal. If under the dark ice the ship strikes an object (whale, rock, island, berg) which its great sub- aqueous searchlights do not disclose, the projecting feeler will ram back against compressed air and so absorb most of the shock. Since the boat will cruise at 3 knots during the 3,000 mi. under ice course of its Arctic journey, the danger of concussions is slight...
...project has roused much skepticism. Most doleful thought: the sub- marine will be fouled bv ice formed on its rudders and hydroplanes, will be unable to maneuver, will be frozen into any hole she makes in the ice. Warrant for the trip's success lies in Explorer Wilkins' caution, courage, foresight and ability, proved repeatedly through his explorations by sled, ship and plane. Scientific approbation of the proposed submarine excursion comes from the American Geographical Society, the Carnegie Institution, the Norwegian Geographical Insti- tution, the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History...