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...Westbury and perhaps a thousand people stood about, shivering in overcoats. The morning was not so chilly, but they were excited. In a, few minutes this plane would rush down a long, specially built dirt runaway, lift into the air, skim, climb, circle and head off for the Atlantic, Newfoundland, Ireland, Paris...
...seven years since a humming speck moved across the 1,960 miles of fog-hung ocean separating Newfoundland and Ireland, and deposited Captain John W. Alcock and Lieutenant A. Whitten Brown safely on "the other side" in 16 hours, 12 minutes. The late Lord Northcliffe enriched those two flyers with some $50,000 in prize money and prophesied that soon London newspapers would be sold the day of issue in Manhattan. But no man has since attempted the feat of a non-stop transatlantic passage in a heavier-than-air* machine, though of late years a Manhattan hotel man, Raymond...
...peak, and there are more U. S. farm horses than ever before. Similarly, it is natural to conclude that wireless communication is superseding cable lines. But, last week, the Western Union Co. manifested the continued vigor of its industry, spurred perhaps by radio competition, by landing the Newfoundland shore-end of a new New York-to-London cable costing about $4,000,000, that will be eight times as fast and efficient as any now joining these two cities. At Bay Roberts, 150 Newfoundlanders bundled on their oilskins and went down the beach through a driving rain to drag...
Last week a lonely Coast Guard cutter, the Tampa, was hurrying north to the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. Behind her lay a winter season of snooping after rum-runners off the U. S. Before her stretched a season of snooping af-ter icebergs. On April 15 she, or her alternate iceberg scout, the Modoc, will heave to at latitude 41° 46' north, longitude 50° 14' west. Her crew, except for the ever present watch in crow's-nest and bridge, will fire three volleys, will moan "taps" in lament for the sinking of the Titanic...
This year Dr. Howard T. Barnes of McGill University will try to destroy icebergs at their source, in the Greenland glaciers. Here the ice cap is 7,000 feet thick. Vast bits break off at the sea edges to float south to the Newfoundland banks as bergs. Dr. Barnes hopes to smash the glacier edges with thermite, a chemical which develops enormous heat in contact with ice.* (TIME, March...