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...height above the ground was that there were no air molecules or dust particles in the air to diffuse the sun's rays. Thus the only place the explorers could see light in the sky was by looking directly into the sun, which had the appearance of a searchlight. They were on the upper side of what we or dinarily call the blue sky, in the words of Dr. Stetson...
...Boldly the supervisor ordered seized vast quantities of smuggled Japanese and Korean imports, which include rice, bean-cake, bean-oil, cotton piece goods, sugar and cement. Last week the commander of the ten Japanese destroyers, which came zipping into Swatow and proceeded to indulge in spectacular searchlight drills every night, demanded that the smuggled goods be returned to the Japanese smugglers and that all Swatow duties on such goods be hereafter canceled. Chiang Goes West. With frightened local authorities at Hankow and Swatow obliged to accede to Japan's demands, the National Government at Nanking clung like patriotic limpets...
...Army Signal Corps and a sergeant bent over an apparatus of which the handful of witnesses, mostly newsmen, could make out little except the vague outline of a cylinder and the dim flicker of electric bulbs. Synchronized with the mechanism was an 800,000,000 candlepower Sperry searchlight mounted on a truck a few feet away...
Captain Clayton straightened up from his fiddling with the device. The sergeant barked: "Light!" Instantly the searchlight bored a narrow, dazzling hole through the darkness over the sea. Three miles away, one mile from where it was last seen, the Pontchartrain gleamed in the centre of the beam...
...searchlight went out. Again & again, while the Pontchartrain moved invisibly to new positions at sea, the searchlight flashed on to impale the craft on the beam's end. Nineteen times the beam struck the cutter amidships. Once it caught only the stern...