Word: bermudas
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...from California to Great Britain was having trouble with its radio compass. The pilot asked for a radio bearing, got it. It was three hours later when Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda heard from it again. This time the message was terse, urgent: the B-29 was running out of gas and preparing to ditch. A few minutes later the Coast Guard cutter Bibb heard a faint SOS. After that, there was nothing...
...nicest thing to tell the boys because the seas were running high. We threw everything into the sea that we didn't need. We got all the rest of our stuff together and looked down at the ocean." Then, somewhere about 400 miles northeast of Bermuda, the B-29 smacked into the rolling Atlantic swell with a rending jolt. There was another jolt as the big bomber's high-finned tail snapped...
...combine was first organized 2½ years ago at the suggestion of the U.S. Government to conduct a survey of Japan. Named as president was Clifford S. Strike, 46, president of Manhattan's F. H. McGraw & Co., which built, among other World War II projects, the $36 million Bermuda air base. Last week in a green-carpeted office on Manhattan's East 42nd Street, O.C.I. President Strike and Board Chairman
Mead Makers Ltd., a Gulval firm, is now brewing mead in steam-heated vats at the rate of 300,000 bottles a year. The firm is already shipping some mead to Bermuda; Mexico has given the largest single order so far (5,000). U.S. citizens will have their chance at mead; plain, it tastes like a Rhine wine but has more sting. Special varieties are sack mead, which tastes like Tokay; cyser, in which cider instead of water is mixed with honey to make a wine that tastes like sherry; and pyment, or clarre, which is like claret...
...when Dr. William Beebe made his record ocean descent in his baby blue Bathysphere off Bermuda, he had to stop at 3,028 feet because the cable was about to run out. As he crawled out on deck after being pulled up, Scientist Beebe announced: "I'll tell the world that this is the last time I'll attempt record-breaking dives which really have no scientific value...