Word: aeolus
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...Missouri, Kansas, Indiana and Ohio, temperatures fell to freezing as the blizzard laid a sheet of ice and left a trail of wreckage over the land. The night it hit Milwaukee it was going 60 miles an hour, spitting lightning and roaring like Aeolus. Milwaukee stopped breathing. Streetcars, buses, automobiles stalled; in many cases their passengers slept in them. People were trapped everywhere-a phenomenal number of them in bars. After twelve hours, the fire department was snowed in; snowplows could not budge through the 10-foot drifts. Five people who tried to buck their way home through the shot...
...Horta in the Azores, some 500 miles off Lisbon, sped the mothership Schwabenland. Aboard were the world's most powerful catapult and two sleek new Dornier all-metal flying boats, the Aeolus and Zephir. High-winged monoplanes with sponsons, powered by two Junkers Diesel engines in tandem on the wing-top, they weigh ten tons, have a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Anchoring 100 miles off Horta, the Schwabenland prepared to send one plane non-stop to New York, the other to Bermuda, then to New York. Reason the start was from the Azores is that Lufthansa regards...
First away was the Aeolus, bound for Bermuda. After 60 miles it turned back with trouble in the air-cooling system. Same evening the Zephir shot away, uneventfully buzzed the 2,390 miles to Pan American's Long Island base at Manhasset Bay. With four men aboard, the silver and yellow flying boat covered the route in 22 hours, using Pan American's radio as a guidepost. Shrugged Ruddy Captain Joachim Blankenburg: "A routine flight . . . an everyday event. I am glad to say, however, that we had about everything the ocean could offer in the way of weather...
...Carefully de touring around France and Belgium, thus losing eight hours, the von Hindenburg passed the white cliffs' of Dover, swashed along at 58 knots over the waves toward Pernambuco, Brazil. Above the Equator the passengers were baptized not by the Sea's "Neptune" but by "Aeolus," god of the winds. One hundred hours out of Friedrichshafen, the von Hindenburg snored over Rio de Janeiro, was warped painfully to the mast at brand new Santa Cruz airdock. Thirty-seven passengers and one German automobile descended...
...Odyssey, an archaic old bottle but still stout, decided it was just the thing for his 20th Century wine. Thus. Ulysses became Bloom, the wanderer in search of home, wife and son. Penelope was his wife Molly, Telemachus, Stephen. Other obvious parallels: Hades, the graveyard; the Cave of Aeolus, the newspaper office; the Isle of Circe, the brothel. A less obvious parallel: the passage between Scylla and Charybdis, Bloom's walk through the National Library while Stephen and some literary men are discussing Aristotelianism (the rock of Dogma), Platonism (the whirlpool of Mysticism). Ulysses' slaying of Penelope...