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...Alder, Wash, heard the sedate rumble of her four 1,100 h.p. engines change to a snarling roar as her pilot put her nose downhill through the overcast one day last week. From the clouds 10,000 feet above them she burst into view, fleet, round-bodied. A black speck burst from her left side, grew with incredible rapidity as it hurtled to the ground-an engine. Her sleek left wing swung back, twisted in the air and fell away as her engines alternately roared and growled...
...five-yard line, he watches the course of the ball through the air towards him. Swiftly it rises until it seems to be higher than the rim of the stadium behind it up and up in a graceful are. His eyes glue themselves to this careening brown speck. He remains motionless, staring at it in fascination like one hypnotized. . . . This is a game, old boy; it has started now. Forget that hollow stomach feeling. This is a football in the air; your anticipation is over; the future has become the present. This is why your rib felt like...
Last year the American Radio Relay League secured for this South Pacific speck a modern radio transmitter. One night last week Operator Andrew Young (VR6AY, Pitcairn) talked with Operator Dorothy Hall (W21XY, Queens, L. I.), told her that all ships were avoiding the island because of a false rumor of typhoid epidemic, that Pitcairn was in desperate need of medicines for inhabitants who were ill from other causes...
Last week Science Service reported that hydroponics would soon get under way at Wake Island, the tiny speck of land in mid-ocean which Pan American Airways uses as a way station for its trans-Pacific Clippers. For Wake Island's barren half acre, hydroponics is a natural. In the mild tropical climate no greenhouses will be necessary. If the open-air tanks of mineralized water function as expected, Wake Island will have fresh beans, tomatoes and other vegetables for the resident personnel and for the Clippers' crews and passengers...
...Actually, the very serious object of the prize was to find a clue to the long-sought breeding places of tuna. All entries were to be sent to the Federal Trust Co., in Newark. Last fortnight Feigenspan thought they had received the sure winner in this category: Russell C. Speck's 25½ ouncer, caught off Monnosquan, N. J. The Trust Co. sent the tuna to a nearby tavern to be put on ice. Then, suddenly it disappeared. Sportsmanlike Mr. Feigenspan, however, announced that angler Speck would get the $100 if no smaller tuna were caught before...