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...breakfast table 40 years ago as the Great Commoner, William Jennings Bryan, engulfed one poached egg on half a baked potato at every bite. He lived in raw Chicago in 1907-08, brawled and bragged among the artists of Greenwich Village and Montparnasse, worked in a Norfolk shipyard in the War, bummed thousands of miles through the South and West with an eye for the smoking valleys, the shanty boats on the rivers, the boom towns, tumbled farms and vast continental curve of his country...
...Author last year showed his knack for popularization in his bestseller, Kindling, the tale of a Banker Bountiful who rescues an unemployed shipyard town. More effective, Ordeal gives him material closer home. Pilot in the Royal Air Force Reserve, Author Shute (real name: Nevil Shute Norway) was deputy chief engineer (later chief) of construction of the airship R100, sailed with her on the first trip to Canada. In 1931 he formed an airplane company, saw it grown to 1,000 employes when he resigned last April. Ordeal to the contrary, Author Shute declares he is no alarmist. Average casualty rate...
...long, is equipped with Diesel engines to carry 800 passengers from Oslo, Kristiansand, Stavenger and Bergen to New York in seven days-twelve hours faster than any other Norwegian vessel. Grateful for Germany's slick construction job, the line gave a 10,000-mark tip to the shipyard's relief fund...
...conscious citizens of Danzig were jubilant. At Schichau's shipyard in the mouth of the Vistula work was proceeding on two great ocean liners, biggest ever to be built in the ancient Hanseatic town. When war came with that year's early harvest one had been launched and later was slowly completed, but only the hull of the other had been riveted-and after German workers marched to war, work on it was abandoned for nearly seven years...
...showman hired a handful of aquatic stars including Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, Eleanor Holm Jarrett, who is at home with either water or champagne. Divers Aileen Riggin and Dick Degener and Stubby Kreuger, the diving clown. A floating stage 160 ft. wide, equipped with diving towers, was built in a shipyard and towed into place on the lake front by six tugs. While the Aquacade was going on, the stage was to be 60 ft. offshore from the block-long casino whence 4,000 spectators could watch. After the show the stage would move in on underwater runways so close that...