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Like the terrible secret of the U. S. Navy collier Cyclops (TIME, July 14), the exact fate of France's dirigible Dixmude has remained a mystery since 1923. Last week it was reported that the French Government might send an expedition into the Sahara to trace stories of desert...
The sea was flat, the weather fair on March 4, 1918, when the Navy's 19,360-ton collier Cyclops put out of Barbados for Baltimore. She was carrying a heavy cargo of Brazilian manganese, badly needed by U. S. steel plants making War munitions. She slipped over the...
Last week the Navy Department announced receipt of a letter from a onetime Marine sergeant, resident of California. He said that while visiting in San Antonio, Tex., he obtained from an anonymous chance acquaintance a diary purporting to be written by one of four German hirelings who dynamited the Cyclops...
If German agents did blow up the Cyclops, that was their right-the U. S. was then in the War. But if German agents blew up Lehigh Valley R. R.'s Black Tom Terminal (July 29, 1916) and Canadian Car & Foundry Co.'s Kingsland Assemblying Plant (Jan. 11...
Naming the New Planet is a problem. When Herschel discovered Uranus he called it Georgium Siditis after King George III of England. Others suggested Herschel. Both names raised an academic row. The quarrel was resolved by choosing Uranus, the Greek personification of the Heavens, husband of Gaea (Earth), father of...