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...Great Valley?Mary Johnston ($2). Scotch settlers in a magnificent panorama of the Shenandoah Valley...
...second time since the wreck of the Shenandoah (TIME, Sept. 14), the dirigible Los Angeles rose from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J., and headed south-east against an April wind. The early excursionists in Asbury Park and Point Pleasant saw her pass, a silver minnow loitering in the pale sky, and they looked at one another and talked stupidly about bolts of lightning, picturing the silver skin gutted and men blown down the night like seeds. Captain G. W. Steele Jr., however, and Lieutenant Commander Charles M. Rosendahl, who flew the ship, indulged in no such morbid associations...
...When the L-4 was cruising in Irish waters in Wartime, something went wrong with the ballast and down she went. Lieutenant Commander Lewis Hancock brought her to the surface, lived a few years, died last fall with the Shenandoah...
...last week and the teller made a fearsome tale of it. He was Charles P. Burgess, an associate professor of aeronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was assigned a place in the RS-1's crew of 13 as technical observer. He had also been aboard the late Shenandoah that night in 1924 when she broke loose from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J. (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924), and he described the forced flight of the RS-1 as "far more violent...
Representative Butler, Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, has introduced a bill for building a new ship, bigger and better than the Shenandoah. Such a ship would cost upwards of $5,000,000. It would probably take four or five years to build. Secretary Wilbur and Admiral Jones are willing that such a ship should be built, provided the cost of building does not reduce the amount of money available for other naval purposes...