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...Princess Jane has a palace in Rome and one in Venice. She used to give tremendous dinners, balls and routs that were faithfully reported by the smartcharts of four countries. Knowing visitors to Italy placed an introduction to Princess Jane beside a visit to the Catacombs and a gondola ride by moonlight as items not to be missed...
...sorted. Giant shears leisurely chomp a steel freight car into bits. Oxyacetylene torches slice up rail's, girders, beams. "Skull-crackers" shatter cumbersome castings. Twisted sheets and waste are bundled by hydraulic presses. Great electric magnets on overhead cranes pile the fragments into heaps or load them in gondola cars for the blast furnaces...
...seeking a new altitude record. A height of ten miles, as before, would satisfy his purpose of studying fur ther the origin of cosmic rays. His last observations agreed with famed Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan that the rays emanate from between the stars.* The new aluminum gondola which he had built to carry himself and his new assistant, Max Cosyns, 25, was superior to last year's which, covered with tourists' scratchings, rests in the library of the Free University, Brussels...
Proud as Navy lighter-than-air men are of the great new Akron, most of them have a strong affection for "the old L. A." Nearly all prefer to travel in her because, built as a peace ship, she has comfortable quarters in a gondola like the Graf Zeppelin's. Aboard the warlike Akron officers & crew (except the captain) are tucked deep in the ship's bowels. More fundamental is the Navymen's admiration for a ship which was the training school of practically all the lighter-than-air personnel; which flew some...
...Behaving disgracefully at Anacostia, D. C. on christening day, breaking away from an inexperienced ground crew and having to be lowered by waste of helium so Mrs. Coolidge could douse the ship's gondola with River of Jordan water...