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...Beaumont, Texas, last week a U.S. Coast Guard board of inquiry sought to solve the mystery of the Marine Sulphur Queen. A 523-ft. converted tanker, the Queen left Beaumont on Feb. 2, bound for Norfolk and points north, with a full cargo of molten sulphur. The ship's last radio report, on Feb. 3, placed it 230 miles southeast of New Orleans. Two weeks later, pieces of a raft, a life vest, a broken oar washed up on Florida beaches. There had been no S 0 S, no warning of trouble. The Sulphur Queen and its crew...
Once, the Queen actually sailed into a New Jersey port with fires smoldering, unloaded her cargo, and sailed off again-still burning. The crewmen were in constant fear and complained to their union. A furloughed crewman, Able Seaman Zack Booth, a huge fellow known to his friends as "Big Brother," testified that one sailor, now missing, told him: "Big Brother, we are about to burn our house down...
Scientists are still puzzling over Mariner's findings, but on one point they are in unanimous agreement. The very fact that Mariner carried its intricate cargo so far, made so many observations and radioed its reports to earth with such singular success marks the most important accomplishment in the annals of space exploration. It is a proud first for the U.S. No achievement by Russian cosmonaut or U.S. astronaut, no experiment made by any of the myriad other satellites that have been shot aloft has taught man nearly so much as he has learned already from the improbable voyage...
...Ph.D.-he got all the requisite degrees. He stayed on in Pasadena to join the Caltech faculty, get married to a pretty Pomona girl named Muriel Bowler and conduct cosmic ray studies under Millikan. In 1944, when JPL missiles and rockets had become sophisticated enough to require a cargo of accurate telemetering equipment, Pickering was the inevitable choice to supervise the work; he was an acknowledged expert in the electronics art of long-distance measurement and control...
Adding to U.S. shippers' woes, trucks and trains have stepped in with more convenient and sometimes lower-cost service. Result: since 1938 the number of dry-cargo ships running between U.S. ports has dropped from 379 to 100, and the number of tankers-which are feeling the competition of pipelines and oil imports -from 266 to 207. Last year such venerable lines as Luckenbach and Pope Talbot dropped out of intercoastal business altogether...