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...Fatherland is Adolf Hitler's crony. Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Consul General at San Francisco. Waterfront talk was that, now that the British were on the alert, he would try shipping them in small lots on different ships, perhaps even on the Japanese "fishing boats" with which California waters abound...
Frannie Powers, fresh from the Florida sunshine, is expected to try the sprint events tonight. He is reported to have caused much anxiety among lifeguards around Miami because of his long training swims seaward during which he was frequently mistaken for a sailfish by the fishing ernisers which abound in those waters...
...mines bore inscriptions, such as: WHEN THIS GOES UP, UP GOES CHURCHILL. They advised neutrals to shun British waters, trade with Germany instead. British waters, they said, were not mercantile fairways, subject to The Hague Convention of 1907 regulating sea warfare,* but military areas where enemy ships of war abound and must be attacked. They had been made military areas by the British themselves with their defense mine fields and blockade regulations for neutral shipping...
...Water is an excellent conductor of sound, much better than air. As in air, abound wave in water registers against a diaphragm as a series of mechanical impulses. One early type of hydrophone was like a crude telephone. A rubber diaphragm immersed in the water received the impulses, transmitted them to a carbon-granule chamber, thence through wires to the earphones...
...politician, puckish Sir Thomas would undoubtedly alarm his more sober countrymen. Typical Beecham attitude: "It is safe to prophesy that the ideological lunatics who abound in every country will, both in the press and out of it, continue their unhappy endeavors to widen the breach between one country and another. I look forward, therefore, to a highly ironical and diverting climax to the current epoch of political myopia...