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...remodelled to conform to this year's rules. Yankee, a heavy weather boat which holds the record for the 30-mile Cup course, had her bow sharpened to make her faster in light airs. Frank Paine, her designer, raised the money by subscription in Boston. Weetamoe had her keel weights deepened and moved forward to make her more seaworthy. The New York syndicate which owns Whirlwind, slowest of 1930's four contenders, did not recondition her this year. vanitie, under this year's rules, is ineligible to defend the Cup; she raced last week to keep...
...mail subsidies and cheap construction loans, Exporter Herbermann got the first mail contract. His subsequent activities were aired last year before the Senate committee investigating air and ocean mail contracts. Discoveries: 1) the Shipping Board spent $1,825,000 to repair 18 ships which it sold bolt and keel to -Henry Herbermann for $1,071,431; 2) Mr. Herbermann, under the Jones-White Act, borrowed from the Shipping Board $7,122,750 to build four passenger liners, got his loans extended later although Export's debts exceeded its assets 3-to-1; 3) despite large payments on mail contracts...
...attempted to fly from Atlantic City to Europe in the rebuilt America, with a crew of five and a mascot kitten. The America had a bag 228 ft. long filled with hydrogen generated from sulphuric acid and iron filings. She carried a long control car, the keel of which was a cylindrical fuel tank. From it were suspended a lifeboat and a long cable trailing a cluster of 30 hollow steel cylinders. This last device, called an "equilibrator," was supposed to touch the water, keeping the dirigible at an altitude of 200 ft. If the warm sun should cause...
...would get them when as the boats rounded the last mark, she was far out in front and Lorna Whittelsey was third, a good quarter-mile behind Edgartown. By making up that quarter-mile- largely because the Edgartown had somehow picked up a piece of driftwood with her keel-Lorna Whittelsey kept her chance alive but it was a chance as faint as the breeze that had given it to her. In the sixth race, Ruth Sears would have had to miss the one point a boat gets for finishing to lose the championship. Instead, while Lorna Whittelsey was winning...
...Washington and flew off for a midnight meeting with President Roosevelt at Hyde Park. When General Johnson woke up next morning in Poughkeepsie's Nelson Hotel the coal strike had been called off for the time being. The recovery program was again moving forward on an even keel. By his night flight General Johnson had not only patched up a strike truce but had also hornswoggled out of Capital & Labor a high-sounding agreement to keep the peace while he did his NRA job. Almost overnight the Pennsylvania coal strike had flared up from a local ruckus in Fayette...