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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inventor Sperry also described a compressed air barrage which might have made diving possible during the rough weather. "You take a pipe, perforate it with holes, let it down about 30 feet and then pump air through it at high pressure. The bubbles break up the waves over a limited area of ocean, and it seems to me that the Navy could have continued its rescue work behind that barrage. . . . The Standard Oil Company has done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Off Provincetown | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...Feet: Large. When he arrived at the Embassy in France no shoes big enough were handy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Lindbergh | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...came up without warning dead ahead. The S-4 had sunk immediately. The Paulding, herself damaged, had had to run ashore. From the flare-lit ships at sea, men were fishing. Just before midnight, coast guardsmen grappled what seemed like the S-4's hull, more than 100 feet down and several hundred yards from where a "slick" of oil had marked the sinking ship's disappearance. Depth rescuers-including crews and equipment which finally raised the famed S-51 off Block Island two years ago (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925) -hurried to Provincetown from the New London, Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Off Provincetown | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

Menelaos shakes hands with his subjects and, by stentorian snoring and an overemphasized case of hay-fever, blows his wife away. Once gone, she realizes that a statue is not an idol unless it has clay feet; and that men are always either snoring or boring. This cultural advance is accomplished with a great pounding of subtitles, and a cast whose gait is not always, but usually, smooth and rapid. Among its members are Lewis Stone as Menelaos and Ricardo Cortez as a sultry but persuasive Paris. Now We're in the Air. Wallace Berry and Raymond Hatton have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 26, 1927 | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

Into the House of Representatives strode Col. Lindbergh and broke a precedent. He was received by Nicholas Longworth on the Speaker's rostrum, unique honor for a private citizen. Said Mr. Longworth: "America's most attractive citizen." To his feet jumped Representative Snell, New York, moved to confer the Congressional Medal of Honor on the flyer. Hammering his gavel, not waiting for a vote, Mr. Longworth shouted: "The bill is passed!" Laughter; shouts of approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Langley Medal | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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