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...freighter but a floating power plant with which the company could supplement its electrical production in cases of emergency along the New Hampshire and Maine coast. Inspiration for this translation was, of course, the emergency use of the Navy's aircraft carrier Lexington as a power plant at Tacoma, Wash., last winter (TIME, Dec. 2). Central Maine Power officials decided it would be cheaper to float an auxiliary plant up and down the coast than to build, in a scattered territory fed entirely by water power, emergency steam plants for use in time of drought. The Jacona...
...recipients to spend a year in foreign travel, are: Frank McMinn Chambers, of Port Arthur, Texas, Summa Cum Laude in Romance Languages; Albert Gallord Hart 2d, White Plains, New York, Summa Cum Laude in Economics; Franklin Haase Kissner, Bethlehem, Pa., Summa Cum Laude in English; John Chester Miller, Tacoma, Washington, Summa Cum Laude in History and Literature; John Frank Wood, Chester, Pa., Summa Cum Laude in History, and winner of the Washburn Prize for the best thesis in history...
Bromley's Luck. Last June Lieut. Harold Bromley raced his low-wing Lockheed down a runway for a Tacoma-to-Tokyo flight. Gasoline splashed in his eyes. Out of control, the plane ground-looped, broke into pieces. In September the late Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy testflew an identical plane for Bromley. Part of the tail surfaces washed away. Fahy was severely injured. Last week Bromley's third Tacoma-Tokyo ship burst into flames over the Mojave desert, near the Lockheed plant at Burbank, Calif. Testpilot M. W. Catlin was horribly burned...
March 13-15-Tacoma Kennel Club Show; at Tacoma, Wash...
Thomas Schofield Handforth of Tacoma, Wash., and George Overbury ("Pop") Hart of Coytesville, N. J., and many other places, have the greatest wanderlust of all. Handforth's delight is to sketch shepherds in Arabia and scenes in Tunis; Hart's to watch and sketch cockfights, mandolin players in Mexico and the West Indies, veiled women in Morocco...