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...because of thick weather but kept on toward California. They almost reached Mexico, turned back north. For four hours no one knew where they were. Finally they found a hole in the fog near San Jacinto, landed skilfully in a cow pasture, handed out cards bearing the words "Eat," "Bath," "Sleep." The Soviet consul arrived, jabbered in hearty Russian to the flyers while they splashed in a shower at March Field. They telephoned the Soviet Embassy in Washington, cabled proudly to Moscow, wolfed a breakfast of ham & eggs, went shopping. They had made the longest non-stop flight in history...
...Bank of Ethiopia were attempting to regain possession of certain securities, admittedly held by the National Bank of Egypt in Cairo, against the Italian-appointed liquidator of the Bank of Ethiopia, one Wladimiro Liguori. Plaintiffs brought in evidence a decree signed by Emperor Haile Selassie from his exile at Bath...
...area then under Italian control. The effect of Great Britain's de facto recognition is that I am bound to treat the acts of the Government which was so recognized as acts which cannot be impugned.'' Referring to the decree signed by the Negus at Bath: "I cannot imagine any ground on which it could seriously be argued that I could pay any attention...
Victim of this innocent crotchet last week was Mrs. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt. it was caused by her eagerness to perform creditably at the launching of her husband's newest yacht. Last week, in the salty little city of Bath, Me., the moment lor which Mrs. Vanderbilt had been nerving herself finally arrived. Taking a firm grip on a ribboned bottle of champagne, she swung it briskly against the bow of what, in the Bath Iron Works, had theretofore been merely Hull No. 272. Cried she with faultless diction: "I christen thee Ranger." The hull slipped smoothly down its chute...
...yachts are patterned after models which are sailed in a loo-ft. tank. At Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N. J., a 43-in. model of the new Ranger was tried out last autumn against a similar model of Endeavour I. Ranger proved much faster. In the Bath Iron Works, which had previously built only one Cup contender and in which last winter's most important job was five U. S. destroyers (TIME, Nov. 23), Ranger, first America's Cup yacht in 25 years to have an all-steel hull, was whacked together in 140 days...