Word: bermudas
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...trying to watch too many pots. Last week, while he was anxiously brooding over his simmering reciprocal trade treaties, another pot boiled over and blew the lid off. From the Associated Press came a new version of the first seizure of U. S. mails on transatlantic Clippers landing at Bermuda. According to the story, when Captain Charles A. Lorber refused to let the British censor board his plane, the censor whistled up a boatload of marines armed with rifles with fixed bayonets. There are times for heroes, times for diplomats. Forty-two-year-old Captain Lorber was a hero...
...know what Andrew Jackson would have said in this case," declared Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota. "He would have said, 'Let's seize Bermuda...
...pass up Bermuda in our transportation?" demanded North Dakota's Senator Nye. "It would not be a week before arrogant Britain would come to terms...
...American Airways took Senator Nye's tip, at week's end announced that their transatlantic Clippers would not stop at Bermuda on eastbound trips after March 15. "With the improved weather service," the airline carefully explained, "the intermediate stop at Bermuda . . .will no longer be required." Clippers will fly to the Portuguese-owned Azores in one hop. Pan American's shuttle service between New York and Bermuda by smaller seaplanes will go on as usual...
...most perennially interesting and important news in the world, meteorologists from the U. S. Weather Bureau got ready, to sail on two 2,000-ton Coast Guard cutters, Duane and Bibbo, to permanent weather outposts on the Atlantic. At points one-third and two-thirds of the way between Bermuda and the Azores they will station, send up balloons with instruments to measure pressure, humidity and temperature, keep a constant, weather-wise eye on the sea, wireless their reports back to Washington...