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...Rattling Ships??? The decks and super structures of such mighty ships as the Majestic and Leviathan rip slightly during heavy storms. William Hovgaard (Mass. Institute of Technology) advised marine engineers, who must figure tearing stress of storms, to use more rivets on their ships and to strengthen the corners of deck houses...
True to this prediction. I. M. M. eventually, in 1926, was glad to sell the White Star Line back to British interests, represented by the then potent Royal Mail combination. Thereby I. M. M. lost all its biggest ships???Majestic, Olympic, Homeric?and retained only its minor units such as Atlantic Transport. But the same year that this great tonnage passed from U. S. control, another development was taking place in U.S. shipping...
...planes and Amphibians. Our $40,000 brick and steel hangar is capable of housing fifteen planes and is also equipped with a first-class machine shop. A $10,000 restaurant, adjacent to the hangar serves spectators and visiting pilots with excellent cuisine. At present the port boasts of four ships???two Warner Travel Airs, an Aero-Avian and one CH 300 Bellanca Monoplane...
...these objectors, Rear Admiral Fiske?who has also invented a torpedo-plane, a telescope, a rangefinder, an ammunition hoist, a range indicator, a gun director system, a system for detecting submarines and an electromagnetic system for exploding torpedoes under ships???made answer...
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