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...week's finish proved no exception. First over the horizon at St. David's Head, Vamarie crossed the line four minutes ahead of the schooner Brilliant. When the race was over, however, neither had won, for brand new Kirawan, finishing third, beat them both by her 13-hr. time allowance. Time of the winner was 4 days, 20 hr., very slow because of a 50 m.p.h. gale which swooped down on the fleet in the Gulf Stream, made the race the roughest in 13 years, forced six yachts to scuttle back to the U. S. with split sails...
Three-to-three the Justices deadlocked on acts establishing minimum wage machinery, 48-hr, week, compulsory one-day's-rest-in-seven...
...first three, scheduled them to go into service this week between Newark and Chicago. To prove that the DC-3 is the world's finest transport, American last week sent one of them roaring from Chicago to Newark and back without stopping: 1,472 mi. in 8 hr...
...Majestic. From then until the launching of the Normandie last year, she was the largest ship afloat, though the 907-ft. Leviathan made similar claims. In 1923 the bulky three-stacker momentarily snatched the transatlantic speed record from the Mauretania (now also junked) by crossing in 5 days, 5 hr...
About the Hindenburg's trip there was nothing scientifically notable except that it inaugurated the first regular North Atlantic air service, made a record dirigible crossing (61 hr., 38 min.). Half a dozen special newspaper correspondents aboard, however, recorded reams of trivial happenings. Most of the 51 passengers admitted they had difficulty remembering they were in the air, so steady was the motion, so familiar were the accommodations to steamship travelers. Dr. Hugo Eckener had shouted: "Auf, Schiff!" at Friedrichshafen at 9 p.m. An hour later practically all passengers had tired of peering at the lights of Germany, adjourned...