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...German submarine commander who had loosed the torpedo as a "practice shot" had aimed at nothing. The torpedo, he knew, was empty of explosives. Routine-surfeited, he prepared to steam after it, to recover and recharge with propulsive air this highly expensive mechanism...
...freighter City of Rome loomed over the battered and sinking hulk of the submarine. Commander Dobson cried his orders. Every man on the submarine snapped to obey. The Rome backed water. "Throw me a line!" Water streamed down the open conning tower hatch. Eight men asleep in the torpedo room catapulted from their beds. The wireless operator pressed his key frenziedly. Water, heavy and pitiless, swung open doors, sloughed about carelessly. "For God's sake, throw a line to us!" Six men on duty in the engine room reached for levers, were whirled away by the inrushing torrent...
...Angeles. Slowly, cautiously, like the groundhog in February, the great Los Angeles thrust her monstrous grey stern-snout out of the hangar at Lakehurst, N. J. Sniffs of the wind augured well for several days aloft. The motors roared and rumbled, the huge celestial torpedo pushed up for her first extended trip since last July. Heading southeast, Captain George W. Steele Jr. guided her out over Barnegat Bay, then down to Atlantic City and to Cape May through bumpy air seas. Over Barnegat Lighthouse some internal wires had snapped; a waterline had burst, from one of the steam-condensers...
...days later, however, the French Senate, while it rushed though the new taxes 232 to 12, voted to postpone application of the sugar and oil monopolies. In Wall Street there ensued a modicum of cheer. At Paris, Premier Briand described the Senate's action rather theatrically as "a torpedo directed against my Cabinet." He referred of course, to the possibility that the Radicals and Socialists may open up the same sort of "bitter enders'" fight over the monopolies that they have been staging for months over the sales...
...these objectors, Rear Admiral Fiske?who has also invented a torpedo-plane, a telescope, a rangefinder, an ammunition hoist, a range indicator, a gun director system, a system for detecting submarines and an electromagnetic system for exploding torpedoes under ships?made answer...