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...opened for London's 37th night of siege, it was claimed, when British defense planes "fled from Nazi squadrons staging daylight attacks Sunday...
...m.p.h. was breakneck speed for a "naphtha launch." Last week, when the 37th Gold Cup race was staged at Northport Harbor on Long Island Sound, two entries boasted speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h.: Lou Fageol's So Long (97.451 m.p.h. over a measured mile) and George Cannon's Gray Goose III (92.309 m.p.h.). Motorboats have gone faster (Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird II hit 141 m.p.h. last year), but for a Gold Cup boat, limited to engines of 600 to 732 cu. in. piston displacement, 97 m.p.h. was going some...
...made valuable meteorological, geological, magnetic, tidal, glacial and botanical surveys. At one time he was doctor, nurse and cook to a shipful of bedridden men. He finally got his party, invalids and all, to safety with loss of only one man. Kane died in Havana just after his 37th birthday...
...Stevens "sold" to the Government its own property at $22 per carbine which he afterward bought from the Government at $3.50. Only after the "sale" was the purchase made, Morgan buying the carbines in Eastman's name with a payment of $17,486 (Senate Executive Documents No. 72, 37th Congress, 1861-62, 2nd Session...
...been repaid-I make no statement to the contrary in my book-when the claim was made upon the Government for further payment. But the claim was made in Morgan's name, with Morgan, according to Ketchum, "acting as a sort of trustee in the premises" (House Reports, 37th Congress, 1861-62, 2nd Session, Vol.1...