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...trolley line. Tiptoeing round the vast draughty power house they looked at a towering erection of canvas and wallboard 100 feet high representing the arch. Over the opening was a painted rainbow which will be of colored mosaic in the finished work. Bracing either pier was an intricate iceberg of plaster. Together they contained 53 nine-foot figures-rows of muscular nude young men rising to a barrel-chested Superman with arms outstretched; nursing mothers, old men, children and refugees. Many were individual figures of great effectiveness. Two months ago Sculptor Barnard, with plaster in his hair, tried to explain...
...artificial Port of Churchill on Hudson Bay (TIME. Sept. 14, 1931). Last October the 5. S. Bright Fan, out of Churchill with 253,000 bu. of wheat, steered off her course in Hudson Strait, her compass swung untrue by the nearby north magnetic pole. She crashed into an iceberg and went down in three hours in 900 ft. of water. Canadians feared the Bright Fan's end would make Lloyd's drastically step up insurance rates on Churchill cargoes. But last week Canada's Department of the Interior announced a new agreement with Lloyd's, giving...
...fourth night amid the drifting clutter of ice, the explorers were passing along an iceberg when another berg charged, passed, missing them by yards. The charging berg "ran up against the first berg with a heavy thud that would have squeezed us to powder. . . . We saw in the far distance the reflection of the moon on an iceberg to leeward...
Later in the evening they spied a light at sea. Burning their last films, oil and flares, they hailed the trawler Lord Talbot. At dawn the next morning she nosed in through the ice to pick them up. As they boarded the ship, they saw an iceberg slowly crush the wreck of the Familia Volano...
...heatwaves of another ship, a smokestack, an airplane, many miles away; the heat of a man's face a mile away. It not only registers heat waves, but differences of temperature in itself. At night, or in a fog. the electric eye sweeps the horizon. When it encounters an iceberg it loses heat. This loss of heat is recorded, the position of the iceberg determined. Now Macneil is trying to make it record even the infra-red rays from the stars, to chart a ship's position at night...