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Occasionally temporary branches of the Gulf Stream have been noted. Perhaps the steamship captains, reporting a reversal of the Stream last week, had ignorantly floundered through some such stray stream...
...orders he issued was that it be given to me, for he knew I was to succeed him on his retirement. My coming here as commodore is not entirely a happy occasion." Rostron also lamented the Mauretania, his former command. Three German-built liners are now flagships for three steamship lines flying colors that fought Germany ten years ago: The Leviathan (Vaterland) United States Line; the Majestic (Bismarck)-White Star line; the Berengaria (Imperator)-Cunard Line. The past week saw all three simultaneously present in New York harbor...
Another pick-up was that of the Polish flyers, Kasimir Kubala and Louis Idzikowski, 60 miles off Cape Finisterre, Spain, by the German steamship Samos. After a year's palaver with the Polish Ministry of War, they had left Paris, intending to pursue the southern route to the Azores, thence to Halifax, thence to New York. Ten hours later the steamer Aztec sighted them progressing mysteriously northwards, 463 miles north of the Azores. About two-and-a-half hours later, the steamer Tamakura saw them winging eastward at a position 215 miles northeast of that reported by the Aztec...
...thoroughly dry. George Jean Nathan, dramatic critic (Judge, The American Mercury), came down the gangplank of the Aquitania with a message: "All over France I found Pilsener at 12½ ?a glass, and ice cold, too." Capt. Robert Dollar, 84-year-old President of the Dollar Steamship Co. (San Francisco), reached New York on the President Van Buren, rested from his fourth trip around the world in five years. Newsgatherers told him his line will equip its new ships with airplanes. He wagged his square white beard with approval. "It's a nice idea," he grunted, "for people...
...Appointed. Captain Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, commander of the S. S. Beren-garia, to succeed the late Sir James T. W. Charles as commodore of the Cunard Steamship Fleet...