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Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Secretary of State for the British Air Ministry, lately wrote: "Another disaster like that which befell the Shenandoah, would delay development for many years." He had ridden on the Shenandoah just before an Ohio thunderstorm tossed, twisted and tore her to disaster (TIME, Sept. 14,1925). Great Britain was then planning her R-100, which made a troubled round-trip between England and Canada this summer (TIME, Aug. 11), and her R-101. Lord Thomson had then commented: "If the best minds in England can devise anything to make dirigible flying absolutely safe, these ships will...
...hours after leaving Guam the Dumaru ran into a tropical thunderstorm and was struck by lightning; the cargo in the forward hold exploded. She began to burn. All the crew got safely off but the boat Fritz Harmon was in had 32 men, too many. For five days they tried to make Guam against head winds, then gave it up and headed hopelessly for the Caroline Islands or the Philippines...
...testy old major, his fair-haired daughter-in-law, and the dashing half-caste officer who is a friend of her husband and in love with her. Enraged by the major, the half-caste strikes him, thereby making himself eligible for the death penalty-under military law. During a thunderstorm just prior to this occurrence the swart lieutenant had announced ominously: "The gods are angry tonight; they demand a sacrifice. . . . My native blood is strong within me?something is threatening." From the standpoint of audience-intelligence, the play is neatly titled...
Cloud-rider. At Mt. Wasserkupper in the Rhon Mountains, where international glider contests were in progress last week, an approaching thunderstorm sent pilots and spectators scurrying for cover. One pilot, however, Robert Kronfeld of Austria, deliberately took off with his new glider Wien, largest ever built. He knew that the heavy clouds indicated strong upcurrents. He "hooked on" beneath a cloud, soared ahead of the storm's center, landed at Hof, 94 mi. distant, bettering his old world's record by two miles...
...scene is laid in an inn, during an ear-splitting thunderstorm, to which a prattling, sleepy-eyed sage (Actor Cohan) comes for shelter. Subsequent activities, which include robbery, violent quarreling, gunfire, are sometimes burlesqued, sometimes played "straight," never consistently acted. Once Actor Cohan comes down to the footlights and soliloquizes to the effect that everyone in the world is an actor, that he alone is a spectator, that some day he will meet the Great Author. Spectators take this to be in dead earnest, applaud loudly. Sole orthodox comic part is played by Joseph Allen in the role he created...