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...clock, Publisher Black's valet looked for him in the saloon, in his cabin, on deck. There he found his employer's handkerchief. He ran to the bridge to tell Capt. John M. Kelley. The Sabalo put about. Foot by foot a searchlight's bright shaft swept a circle about the idling yacht, found only its own zig-zag reflection. (The owner's yachting cap was fished from the sea two days later...
...before it was announced, London and New York newspaper offices knew last week that the starboard propeller and part of the shaft of the British liner Tahiti had fallen off, some 500 mi. from the Cook Islands, that the Tahiti was sinking while two U. S. vessels, the Matson liner Ventura and the Shipping Board's Antinous were rushing to the rescue. Reason: first news of the sinking Tahiti came from Suva, a Fiji island just west (from New York) of the International date line (180° east of Greenwich) a spot where the sun rises 14 hr. ahead...
German engineers reported last fort- night that they had successfully used a piano wire to measure the invisible twisting of the great steel motor shafts which drive the liner Bremen. They attached a taut wire to the shaft, set it vibrating. Nearby they stretched another wire (not attached to the shaft) to the same pitch. So long as the tautness of the two vibrating wires remained the same, they gave the same note. When the steel shaft twisted a fraction of an inch, it stretched or loosened the attached wire immediately changing the pitch. This musical difference between...
...dedicated to the Army, one to the Navy. 2) Christopher Grant La Farge-An ornamental arrangement of pylons and railings framing a reception plaza, a fountain playing in a great reflecting pool, the whole scaled low, designed simply, keeping the Broadway vista open. 3) Eric Gugler-A granite shaft 800 ft. high flanked by two large armillary spheres, one symbolic of the celestial globe, one of the planets; semicircular steps 400 ft. wide from the water to an esplanade...
...wings of the Curtiss-Bleecker are mounted at right angles to each other, to rotate about a vertical axis. Each wing is equipped with a propeller, shaft-driven by a central Wasp motor mounted horizontally in the axis. Also to each wing is rigged a controllable "flipper," comparable to an aileron. Beneath the entire assembly is a tiny two-place gondola with nearly conventional controls, landing gear, rudder...