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...last week the search was costing $250,000 a day. The battleship Colorado hove to off the Phoenix Islands, catapulted three planes from its deck. The flyers skimmed over Gardner and McKean Islands and Carondelet Reef, saw nothing but ruined guano works and the wreck of a tramp freighter. Thousands of startled seabirds fluttered up, menacing the propellers and forcing the flyers to climb. Some days equatorial squalls and vanishing visibility crippled the hunt, but on others the weather was perfect, visibility unlimited. By week's end the Colorado's planes had scanned more than 100,000 square miles...
...adequate merchant marine has to be a new merchant marine." So wrote Franklin Roosevelt last week pointing out that no freighter for the foreign trade had been built in U. S. shipyards for 15 years. He asked Congress to provide 1) a $10,000,000 appropriation, 2) authorization to contract for $150,000,000 worth of ships, as a starter for his friend Joseph Kennedy, once head of SEC, now chairman of the Maritime Commission, charged with subsidizing the rundown merchant fleet of the U. S. into efficient operating order...
Calculated maximum totality at the noon point in mid-Pacific was 7 min. 4 sec. Astronomers James Stokley of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute and John Quincy Stewart of Princeton did not quite reach this point in the S. S. Steelmaker, a freighter belonging to a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp., but with sympathetic co-operation from the captain they did get close enough to expect a duration of 7 min. 2 sec. Actually they were in the shadow cone for 7 min. 6 sec.-longer than the mathematical maximum-because while the shadow fled eastward the ship...
...magnificent flare of the corona, that expeditions were waiting for the shadow at both these meagre vantage points. Two astronomers-James Stokley of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute and John Quincy Stewart of Princeton-decided to go to the point of maximum duration in a 6,000-ton freighter. They planned to take snapshots with hand cameras, note the direction and length of the corona's streamers and take brightness measurements with photoelectric cells. Whatever the value of these observations, they could at least say they had seen a longer eclipse of the sun than any other astronomers...
...bombs whistled down in Valencia's worst air raid to date. At least 200 people were killed, about 50 buildings destroyed. Uninjured but considerably ruffled, Socialist Thomas cried: "It was diabolical. I shall take a first-hand report of this to President Roosevelt." Lucky was the little British freighter Pinzon, at anchor in Valencia harbor. A bomb dropped full on her bridge but failed to explode...