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...celestial bearings except an ordinary ship sextant. He remedied that by borrowing a modern bubble octant designed especially for airplane navigation. For estimating wind drift over the sea, he obtained two dozen aluminum powder bombs. For some reason these bombs were left behind in a storehouse. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca, which had been dispatched from San Diego to Howland Island solely as a help to the flyers, would have been able to take directional bearings on the Earhart plane if the latter could have tuned its signals to a 500-kilacycle frequency. The plane's transmitter would have been...
...they left Lae, New Guinea for the "worst section"-the 2,550 miles of open ocean to tiny Rowland Island, where no plane had ever been. With typical stunt flyer's negligence, Miss Earhart did not bother to reveal her position along the way. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca at Howland heard from her about once an hour. Her final message said she had only half-an-hour's gas left, could not see land. She still gave no position and the Itasca's direction finder could not get a bearing because she had failed to adjust...
Married. Constance Cutter Morrow, daughter of Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, sister of Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh; to Aubrey Niel Morgan, Welsh cricket player and Cardiff department store executive, widower of Sister Elisabeth Morrow who died in 1934; in North Haven, Me. It was in his family's home that Colonel & Mrs. Lindbergh took refuge after their flight from...
...prior, 1,000 miles at sea, where the slow Atlantic groundswell sweeps across the edge of the Grand Banks, the Coast Guard cutter Mendota slid to a stop, engines dead, church pennant at masthead, to pay the annual homage of the Ice Patrol to the 1,513 dead who caused its creation. Rolling in the trough of the sea with a bleak grey sky above and the broken hull of the Titanic below, the Mendota lay at rest with her 90 officers & men lining her quarter-deck in full dress while Commander Henry W. Coyle Jr. read the burial service...
...fully 25 years," testified Sidney Hillman last week, after cheerfully admitting that he was a pretty poor cutter, "the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and Hart Schaffner & Marx cooperated in a labor-management relationship that was not only steady, unbroken and progressive, but also mutually beneficial. . . . Let us remember that these 25 years abounded in major disturbances, depressions, war and prosperity. . . . And so American industrialists may well look to this record of uninterrupted, regulated industrial relationship, with not a single strike or otherwise upsetting disorder, as a harbinger of what the future has in store for us if only...