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Last week Florida East Coast's receivers bluntly told the holders of an issue of its equipment trust bonds to come & get their 20 mountain-type locomotives, five switching engines, 200 box cars, 100 ballast cars, three passenger cars and 20 cabooses. With traffic what it was, said the receivers, the road did not need the equipment anyway. In normal times the bondholders might sell the equipment to another road. But fearing that they could do nothing with the cars and locomotives except put them in their own back yards, the bondholders protested, and a protective committee persuaded the receivers...
...hydrogen had taken nine hours. Perched on the surrounding cliffs, 35,000 spectators had watched all night while a ground crew of 120 U. S. cavalrymen, working under cinema floodlights, swung into place the airtight gondola with its ton of scientific apparatus and 4,200 Ib. of buckshot ballast. In climbed the crew: Major William E. Kepner (pilot & commander), onetime assistant navigator of the Los Angeles, winner of the 1928 Gordon Bennett international balloon race; Capt. Albert W. Stevens (scientific observer), famed aerial photographer; and Capt. Orvil A. Anderson, longtime lighter-than-airman...
...ocean ships lay helpless. At Los Angeles' well-defended port, shippers were masters of the situation and kept cargoes moving about as usual. But in San Francisco hardly a vessel could load or unload. Scores of freighters had dumped their cargoes on the docks and sailed away in water ballast. Out in the Bay 89 deep-water ships swung idly at anchor. The Dollar Line had diverted all its trans-Pacific passenger traffic to Los Angeles and the Grace Line had eliminated sailings north to Seattle. The steel doors of the 38 docks on San Francisco's five-mile Embarcadero...
...lifeboat and a long cable trailing a cluster of 30 hollow steel cylinders. This last device, called an "equilibrator," was supposed to touch the water, keeping the dirigible at an altitude of 200 ft. If the warm sun should cause the ship to rise, the equilibrator would act as ballast. There were two 80-h. p. engines...
...balloon was released, Commander Settle sat confidently atop the gondola and threw off ballast. A 55 m.p.h. wind swept the bag southeast across Ohio toward Washington. Near East Liverpool (Ohio) they were up 12,500 ft.; near Pittsburgh, up 49,000. At last, they scratched over 58,000 ft., began to descend, and while an all-night search for them was begun by Navy planes and land parties, landed near Bridgeton, N. J. They had not broken the Russian record, but they had sent the first U. S. balloon into the stratosphere...