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Last week two Coast Guard cutters, the Tampa, the Modoc, sailed north to play "I spy" with icebergs. They are to patrol steamship lanes, chart location of icebergs, figure the speed and direction of iceberg-drift, issue warning to Atlantic liners. Though equipped with mines designed to blow icebergs to pieces, they often find bergs which explosives can hardly injure. An iceberg may contain 36,000,000 tons of ice, eight-ninths of which are below the surface of the water. When dynamited, a giant berg merely loses a few large chunks, which then become small bergs, or "growlers...
...sides are Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania; and on the fourth side lies the Adriatic, with Italy just across its silvery waves. Italian states-craft has always the object of seizing the Adriatic shore of Jugoslavia along which Italians already own 96% of all producer wealth: factories, steamship lines, etc. Therefore, if Il Duce could establish close rapprochement with all the countries bounding Jugoslavia, he would have laid the noose for hog-tying that realm. This, in a vulgar word, was what Il Duce and Count Bethlen did last week...
...March twenty-fourth over 70 cases of telescopes and accessories were shipped on the steamship "City of Athens" to East London, South Africa, from which port they will be transferred to the new branch of the Harvard College Observatory at Bloemfontein...
...Cross Channel Service was suspended for the first time in 50 years. Their Majesties, the King and Queen of the Belgians, in London to open an exhibit of Flemish art, were unable to get back to Belgium by either sea or air until the fog cleared. The loss to steamship concerns exceeded...
Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver, biggest British-Oriental ship magnate, Chairman of the P. & O. and many another steamship line...