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...Turin targets were the Royal Arsenal, the Fiat truck and plane plants, the Caproni bomber factory, the Montecatini chemical works. Observers reported that a great pall of smoke lay over the city. At one point flames from a factory shot up 8,000 feet in the air like the plume of a live volcano...
Promptly on his 18th birthday, Mutesa II put on his eight-inch-high gold crown, newly rushed from London, encrusted with sapphires, fire opals and carbuncle garnets, fronted with the tall, traditional white ostrich plume. This made him ruler, under a British "agreement of non-interference," of a cotton-growing territory roughly the size of Ireland...
...dive-bombers and torpedo planes smashed a Jap fleet movement of one carrier flanked by cruisers and destroyers. Torpedo-plane Pilot Lieut. Bruce Harwood of Claremont, Calif., flew within 800 yards of the carrier (presumably the 7,100-ton Ryuzyo) before releasing a "pickle" that sent a giant plume of flame from the ship's bow. In the opening Solomon Islands' sea battle Jap fleet units took a terrific pounding. To U.P. Reporter Joe James Custer the great balls of flame being volleyed back & forth over the blue court of the ocean turned the scene into "a tennis...
...Sept. 3, sea calm, weather clear, when smoke plumed from the forward deck of what in peacetime was the liner Manhattan, now the busy transport Wakefield. The 24,289-ton ship was steaming westward with about 950 passengers (civilian and Army personnel from England) and 650 crewmen. In one of the passengers' cabins a fire had started and begun to spread. The plume of smoke filled to a straight black pillar in the almost windless air, within view of all ships in the convoy. A minute later the seriousness of the sight was vouched for: the Wakefield broke radio...
...electric eye" has a new use in protecting ships at sea from submarines. An electronic tube mounted in the ship's funnel warns the engine room whenever poor combustion allows smoke to form, thus prevents the black plume which reveals a ship's position far below the horizon...