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...expected to be commissioned by September 1932, is designed to be the fastest transatlantic ship afloat, capable of 27 or more knots and crossing from Naples to New York in seven days. It will carry 2,250 passengers of five classes, a crew of 800. Length: 879.66 ft. Beam: 101.68 ft. New: for lifeboats, 20 motor launches, each carrying 150 people. Because of the night's bombing, hundreds of soldiers lined the yards as the Queen stepped forward. At 8:02 a. m. the Rex started down the ways, splashed; the Queen waved; the King turned, hastened to dedicate...
...guests of the French Republic, to see the International Colonial & Overseas Exposition in Paris (TIME, May 11) and take a whirlwind junket through France. Entrusted to the mayors by the U. S. exposition committee was a bust of the late Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick, carved from a beam of the original White House, to be placed in the Paris Hotel de Ville...
...moved from their Chicago cottage to a Pasadena bungalow, where they were last week. A few miles to the south, near Santa Ana, was a mile long metal tube with a perfectly straight bore. Dr. Michelson had fixed mirrors at each end. Between the mirrors he could jiggle a beam of light. Because air modifies the speed of light and Precisionist Michelson disliked taking airy variables into his calculations, he arranged devices to create a vacuum in his tube...
...Atlanta, Ga., A. E. Shipp, structural steel worker, sued Central Railway of Georgia for $75,000 because, since one of their locomotives hit his automobile, he has suffered from loss of his nerve in the practice of his trade. Said he: ''When I stood on a beam and was hoisted out . . . 190 ft. above the water . . . my face broke out in a cold sweat...
...receiver caught the radio beam and focused it on the receiver antenna, whence it was carried and transformed into audible waves...