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...Europe, fastest-ship afloat, today has covered nearly half of the distance between Cherbourg and New York bearing in one of its staterooms Adolph Hitler's Foreign Press Agent, Ernst F. Sedgewick Hanfstaengl '09, who decided at the last minute to attend the 25th reunion of his class which will be held here next week...
...informal practice yesterday afternoon the first and second crews made the surprising times of six minutes, 42 seconds and 6 minutes, 51 seconds, respectively, which Bert Haines claimed were the fastest recorded for any crew on the Charles for many years...
...Persian Gulf will remain independent territory, and the fame of hard-riding Ibn Saud will blaze high in the Moslem world, not only in British-controlled Aden, Irak and Palestine, but also in the Sudan across the Red Sea. Refueling at Aden, the cruiser Enterprise, one of the fastest in the British navy, tore on toward Hodeida. Word reached British authorities in Aden that among the Saudite loot in Hodeida were great quantities of Italian-made munitions. The Red Sea is only 100 miles wide at Hodeida, and on the other side lies only partially pacified Italian Eritrea. Blushing...
Glenn Luther Martin Co., whose streaking bombers are the envy of all the world's armies, has only two stockholders-Glenn L. Martin and Louis Chevrolet. The founding president owns 525,000 shares. Mr. Chevrolet, who gave his name to the fastest selling automobile in the U. S., owns 1,000 shares.* This week all that will be changed. Through a banking group headed by Otis & Co. 325,000 Martin shares will be offered to the public at $11.50 per share. Founder Martin will donate 150,000 shares of his personal holding to the company for the deal...
Every effort is being made to get the new shell which is being built at Newell into the water by June 2. The fastest shell builders can complete one in five weeks if under pressure, and it is hoped that this one can be finished...