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...Abroad. Year and a half ago Britain's Parliament, deigning to give ear to the television buzz, appointed a committee to find out what Baird Tele vision Ltd. had to offer. Baird was still puttering with mechanical scanners. Fearing the snorts of the committee, Baird sent a frantic SOS to Philo Farnsworth. That tireless young man sped to England and signed a patent lease agreement, with the result that spectators in London's lofty Crystal Palace viewed a fashion show, a horse show, a boxing match, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, all televised from ten miles away. Television passed...
...virtually useless. 4) Mr. Cabaud knew the regulations were not complied with, ignored them in order to keep the liner busy. 5) Captain Warms had no command over his crew, which was completely disorganized. 6) During the fire, he hesitated too long in sending out an SOS, failed to tend to the passengers until too late, handled his ship incompetently. 7) Engineer Abbott did not know his job, never went to his post during the crisis but fled in the first lifeboat, where he plucked off his officer's insignia, murmured: "I'll be jailed for this...
Radioman James W. Hodges, who learned his trade in a Kansas City drug store, was ordered to send out his first SOS signal just four minutes after the Dixie grounded. It was weak because the antenna had blown away, but, as it was repeated, the Navy heard it from Norfolk to Balboa. Tropical Radio heard it from Miami, Radiomarine heard it at West Palm Beach. Out in the raging night other ships heard it, wallowed about on their course. The Texaco tanker Reaper made for the stricken ship. So did United Fruiters Limon and Platano. So did City Service...
...Portugal. Since it was 3:15 a. m., most of her crew and passengers were asleep. Suddenly, they were jolted wide awake as the squat French freighter Formigny plowed into the Doric, dealt her an 18-ft. gash at the waterline below the bridge. Speedily, Captain Grieg issued an SOS, ordered his 520 passengers & some crew members into the lifeboats, whence they were soon picked up by the Orion and the Viceroy of India, carried on toward England. The Doric and the Formigny limped to Vigo and Lisbon for repairs...
Bows of both vessels were badly stove in. The Premier and Mrs. Lyons, native-born Australians who have never before been overseas, stood nervously peering into the fog while the Niagara sent out an SOS...