Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, at the Columbus, Ohio meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a group of enthusiastic dentists and physicians told how they had continued Dr. Dean's work, discussed the possibilities of using fluorine as a decay preventive. Significant reports...
...December 28 at a meeting of the Sigma Xi, honorary scientific society, in Columbus, Ohio, Kirtley Mather, professor of Geology, advanced the theory that science could cure war because "much of the physical basis of international jealously" is eliminated by substitutes made by scientists...
...hour later, in midafternoon, into view raced Hyperion. Tuscaloosa dropped a mile astern to watch the fun. Hyperion shot over the German's bows, commanding her to halt. But already the Columbus crew were performing their well-rehearsed act. Into the lifeboats went all the crew (there were no passengers) except twelve scuttlers, ten firers. Captain Daehne stayed aboard to oversee their job. Down below, the scuttlers opened all sea cocks. Through the ship raced the firers, smashing skylights, emptying drums of benzine and petrol, to make an unbroken trail past heaps of oil-soaked waste to the ship...
...awful, sir?" a bluejacket on the Tuscaloosa asked Captain Daehne as they watched the Columbus blaze...
Exclaimed John Schroeder, Manhattan manager of North German Lloyd, when he heard of the scuttling: "Oh, my God. It's one blow after another!" Because their ship was unarmed, the Columbus' crew, taken to Ellis Island, could look forward to early freedom, as "distressed" mariners. Less clear was the status of the Nazi freighter Arauca (see p. 8), which brought the war close home to Florida pleasure seekers last week by running inside the three-mile limit off Fort Lauderdale (20 miles north of Miami), just in time to escape capture by H.M.S. Orion (cruiser...