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...dawn the blazing Morro Castle was surrounded by rescue ships, the great three-funnelled Monarch of Bermuda, the coastwise steamer City of Savannah and the freighter Andrea F. Luckenbach, one of whose officers in a small boat grabbed young Phelps, dragged him to safety. Contorted faces appeared at cabin portholes, trapped, staring out from the red-hot plates. Some cursed and raved. In his own little private hell, one man seemed to smile and wave his hand in farewell...
Last fortnight, dangling 2,510 ft. down in the sea off Bermuda in the hollow steel ball he calls a bathysphere, William Beebe had a "hunch" that he and Otis Barton, his fellow bathyspherist, had better not go deeper (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week not a hunch but lack of cable held him back. Down went the bathysphere, down past all previous records, down to 3,028 ft. At that point only 47 ft. of cable were left on the winch above. The barge cap tain ordered that no more be paid out. The bathysphere was kept...
...possibility of a European war still seemed reasonably acute last week. In Bermuda, Dr. William Beebe made a record descent into the ocean. Back from Honolulu. President Roosevelt had barely time to catch his breath before he was immersed in currency problems of grave consequence to all U. S. citizens. Such matters as these received attention from the U. S. Press last week but less attention than something which happened in a small room on the first floor of Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore...
Early that morning the battered, blackened barge Ready had been towed by the tug Powerful from St. George, Bermuda, to a point eight miles off lovely Nonsuch Island. Bracketed on the inside wall of the bathysphere were oxygen tanks. Trays of soda lime (to absorb exhaled carbon dioxide) and calcium chloride (to absorb moisture) were stowed in. Dr. Beebe and Mr. Barton wedged themselves in, smiling and waving. They were confident their bathysphere would stand up under the great pressure a half-mile down (1,300 lb. per sq. in.) because a few days before it had been lowered empty...
...State Relief Administrator Julius F. Stone Jr. "Reliever Stone figured it would cost $2,000,000 to dole Key West for another five years. "The thing to do," he announced, "is to make Key West so attractive as to revive the tourist trade. Key West should be the Bermuda of America...