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...work was divided among five men under Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ewing Y. Mitchell who admittedly knows nothing about aviation. Sooner or later the Aeronautics Branch had to have a head man, and no appointive job at the Capital was subject to fiercer competition. Leading candidates were Rex Martin, Wartime flyer, onetime secretary to Illinois' Representative Keller; Major J. Carroll Cone, Wartime flyer, good friend and campaign helper of Arkansas' Senator Robinson; and Eugene L. Vidal, West Pointer, longtime airline executive. "Gene" Vidal is son-in-law of Oklahoma's blind Senator Gore. Early in the game...
...Domenico Orsini and Princess Maria Borghese, learned officially of Italy's great triumph on the night before reaching Manhattan when they read this notice sent down from the bridge by weary but exuberant Captain Tarabotto: "Notwithstanding great part of crossing hindered by strong opposite winds and heavy fog, Rex beats all preceding records as to speed as well as to time spent in crossing Atlantic Ocean. . . . Such result entitles the Rex to the blue ribbon...
...Manhattan harbor the Rex, decked with code flags, received flag and siren salutes from liners, ferryboats and tugs, reached her pier amid frenzied cheering. After sounding the Rex's great whistle one last time Captain Tarabotto rushed into his cabin, "I cried like a child!" he said afterward. "I wept for my beloved dead mother that I could not send her news of this great...
...Notice that the Rex is not dirty!" exulted Chief Engineer Risso. "Her superstructure is not streaked with partially consumed oil as has been the case after record crossings of some ships. That means that the digestion of her boilers was perfect...
Until the Rex triumphed last week Germany's Europa held the Atlantic record with an average speed of 27.92 knots over the 3,149-sea-mile course from Cherbourg to Ambrose Lightship which she covered last month in four days, 16 hours, 48 minutes. Last week the Rex with an average speed of 28.92 knots (exactly one knot faster than the Europa) steamed the longer course of 3,181 sea miles from Gibraltar to Ambrose Lightship in the shorter time of four days, 13 hours, 58 minutes. Until the Rex's trip, the record...