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...monoplanes and effectively streamlined craft. Last week at Boiling Field (Washington, D. C.) was flown a ship nearly approaching the ideal, an Army experimental observation plane built by Anthony Herman Gerhard Fokker. Twin Curtiss Conqueror engines, 600 h. p. with small chemical-cooled radiators, are mounted inside the single thick tapered wing on either side the fuselage. In flight the landing gear can be retracted into the belly of the fuselage, like a bird's legs...
...from Samishiro Beach, Aomori Prefecture, Japan for a nonstop flight to Tacoma, Wash. Twenty-five hours later they were down again at Shiriyazaki, about 40 mi. from the starting point. Reports were meagre, but it was known that the City of Tacoma, an Emsco monoplane, had been in the thick of headwinds, rain and peasoup fog in its course over the Kuriles Islands. One despatch indicated that the plane was forced back by a broken exhaust pipe...
...liner Egypt left London Dock for Bombay with 38 passengers, a crew of 290 and five tons of gold, 45 tons of silver in her hold, valued at over $5,000,000. The next evening, as she was passing the Island of Ushant off Finistere in a fog as thick as last week's, she was rammed amidships by the French cargo steamer Seine, went down in half an hour. Many have been the attempts to find, salvage her. The most important until last week was that of a Swedish Captain Hedbach...
...diving, began cruising about the spot fixed by Captain Hedbach, sounding the bottom methodically, inch by inch. They struck a ship, 400 ft. down. Rough sea held up operations for several days, then a steel diving shell was slung over the side, equipped with oxygen tanks, a telephone, inch-thick glass observation windows. Youngest of the Artiglio's divers, Alberto Bargellini, went down. Director of Operations Alberto Gianni hung breathlessly on the other end of the telephone. Tense minutes of waiting. Director Alberto fretted, cried into the transmitter: "What...
Blonde (once red-headed), big-wristed, thick-ankled, she is possessed of an opportunistic wit and extraordinary energy. She will be 40 in October. She was born and reared on a farm near Winnipeg, Canada. Of her early cultural advantages, she says that her mother "dedicated her to God as Hannah did Samuel; instead of Cinderella and Mother Goose, I went to sleep with Jonah and the Whale and Daniel in the Lion...