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Faltboaters never say "shooting the rapids," but always "Wildwasserfahren." The rubber keel strips are "Kielverstarkungs-streijen aus Vollgummi," the inflatable cushion an "Aufblasbares Sitzkissen...
Away from a Baltimore pier of Maryland Drydock Co. last month churned the world's first all-fireproof ship-the chunky, white, 250-ft S.S. Catherine of Bull Steamship Line, having been taken from her regular Caribbean run and rebuilt from keel up with noncombustible materials, As if this were a monument to his regime, Director Joseph B. Weaver of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, who was appointed by President Roosevelt to improve safety at sea after the Morro Castle fire of 1934, last week resigned his job. Said he: "I feel that the job is about...
Mexico's able young President Lázaro Cárdenas is an Old Revolutionary who would like to get the Revolution settled down on an even keel, with a minimum of bad feeling and bloodshed. To that end he last week proclaimed an amnesty for 10,000 exiles who have been convicted of some 4,000 crimes against the Revolution since 1920, invited them to get back into Mexico and behave. Many were dead; others, like Dictator Porfirio Diaz' son Felix, are back already. The invitation did not include ex-Boss Plutarco Elias Calles, now sojourning...
...craft, to be known as the ARD3 (Auxiliary Repair Dock), will be 1,016 ft. long, 165 ft. beam, 75 ft. high from keel to top deck. It will have a streamlined bow like any ordinary ship and steering equipment in the stern, so that it can be towed by one of the auxiliary train at a rate of ten knots. Also in its stern there will be a pair of huge dam gates that will reveal, when opened, a great rectangular chasm, 125 ft. wide and running almost the entire length of the craft, into which disabled ships will...
Only yacht on the Bath Iron Works future books at present is Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's new America's Cup defense candidate, the keel of which was poured last week. With the passing of the golden days of yacht building, Bath Iron Works struggled along with Coast Guard and Lighthouse Service contracts together with an occasional commercial job until President Newell learned how to get Navy work in 1932. Since then Bath Iron Works has delivered three destroyers including the Lamson, now the fastest ship in the U. S. Navy. Navy Department contracts account for more than...