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...bunch of peonies for King George from Viscount Willingdon, governor-general; and a box of Canadian peaches for the Prince of Wales from Prime Minister Ferguson of Ontario. The homeward flight was uneventful until the second night when severe headwinds were accompanied by a deluge which overflowed the ballast tanks, penetrated the fabric, sloshed into the cabins, put the electric stove out of commission. Next day's breakfast consisted of sardines, whiskey & soda. The winds slowed the R-100 materially-for five hours the speed varied between 15 and 35 m. p. h. Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney, designer...
Berlin to Rio. Excited Spanish soldiers bungled the refueling at Seville. Instead of the expected northeast trades off the African coast, came head and beam winds. Torrential downpours near the Equator bore down like tons of added ballast. But the Graf Zeppelin plowed steadily along her new trade route to Brazil, landed at Pernambuco after 62 hours. The time from Friedrichshafen to Rio de Janeiro was six and a half days. Besides being her sixth Atlantic crossing the flight was a two-point triumph for the Graf: 1) proving the dirigible equal to tropical weather; 2) making Latin-America...
...equator-crossing, the first to be made by a dirigible since the German RL-59 flew to East and Central Africa during the World War. In anticipation of the buoyant effect of tropical heat, Commander Eckener added heavily to the ship's two-ton load of water-ballast in Seville...
...boats, was launched. She is owned by a Boston syndicate, was designed by a member of the syndicate, Frank Paine. She has a beam of 22 ft. 4 in. and is unique among cup contenders in that she has no cast-lead keel but carries her ballast in a trough-keel formed by moulding the garboard plates into a hollow space, where lead will be stowed as needed...
...Indian to carry a pail of sea water to his home. Although India has four of the world's best rock salt areas in the world, could locally manufacture all the salt necessary, the British government dumps some 600,000 tons in the Indian market annually, thus provides ballast tonnage for British shipping, gets $20,000,000 annual revenue from India. The monopolized salt is sold to Indians at prices sometimes 2,000% of production cost. Indian farmers who take cattle to the seashore at night to let them lick whatever salt is deposited, thereby run the risk of imprisonment...