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...Frissell remained hopeful even after Balchen reported that the ice, whipped by a northwest wind, was moving steadily seaward. The father's reasoning was that his son would eventually be swept ashore where he could survive by his own resources. The very fact that others near young Frissell at the time of the explosion had lived to tell the tale was something for the father to cleave to. He went on hoping...
...promotion carried Joseph Joffre by 1911 to the post of Chief of the French General Staff "at only 59." What he called "Plan 17" was soon ready. He merely pulled out and unfolded it when Germany declared war. As the German armies advanced, Joffre tried to outflank their right (seaward) wing, they tried to outflank his left (seaward) wing and the two flanking operations (both perfectly sound) became "the race to the sea." Nobody won the race. It merely strung out the fighting lines. Terrible pounding began. The armies of France were forced back and back...
...George S. Claude of France had been laboring more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water from the ocean bottom for a revolutionary seapower plant. A shoreward section of the pipe had been successfully laid the fortnight before (TIME, June 23). The seaward section, the most important one, the most ticklish one to lay, cost more than $1,000,000. Two steel cables, one inch in diameter, stretched out from shore to tie the pipe to its land base. Along the pipe's length were 120 tanks of compressed air, keeping...
...Nova Scotia last week made Captain David William Bone of the Anchor liner Transylvania uncertain of his bearings as he approached Nantucket, en route from Glasgow to Manhattan. He should have been over the continental shelf, the underwater plateau which extends 150 miles seaward from the North American coast. He ordered a sounding lead dropped. At 100 fathoms it should have touched bottom. It touched nothing. Twice more he sounded. No bottom. Although puzzled he decided that he was on his correct course and the Shelf might be out of place. Apparently last month's earthquake (TIME...
...Woods Hole, on Cape Cod, they found him. Crowds lined the shores of Cape Cod Canal the next day waiting. Tricky, and famed for his practical-jokingness, their Hero putputted seaward, rounded the cape and anchored at Provincetown, where the press picked him up once more. The Hero turned a spotlight on a rowboat full of reporters who came to inquire, picked up his anchor, and slipped away at midnight. Next day an airplane swooped over Hero's boat, the Mouette* as it putputted eastward with Hero's Wife at the wheel, Hero ducking out of sight...