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...these ceased. Under the cloture rule each Senator might speak one hour, so that there might have been 96 hours of debate. Calculating roll calls, allowing six hours to the Senate's day, adding Sundays, action might have been postponed three weeks. Instead it was concluded in about 17 hours???three legislative days...
...Press, in order that this supernews might not be delayed by the usual relays and repeaters. Two operators, transcribing the dot-dashed ticker tape which reeled off the cable receptor at better than a word a second, "cleared the whole despatch of 5,000 words in less than two hours???a unique record in cable transmission...
These apocryphal invaders swept down upon nearly 60 ships of the U. S. Navy, steaming at 20 miles per hour. Of a sudden, the fleet buried itself under a mountain of smoke and fire, black and yellow with a glean of crimson. For six minutes?it seemed six hours??? tons of steel hurtled through the black smoke?some of it went in long low curves ten miles toward "the enemy ships," some went in steep parabolas toward the enemy aircraft. When all was calm, it was apparent that the enemy ships were well smashed. But the airplanes? According to Lieutenant...