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Below in the two launches, cameras clicked. For seconds all was well. Then the people in the launches gasped as the plummeting body, having touched fingers and toes in a back jackknife, was seen to straighten and then veer, swing crazily in the air-pressure and smash, spread-legged, into the water on shoulders and back. "He's dead!" someone shrieked...
...starboard bow, the signals were suddenly lost. The oscillograph detector went dead also. Then the lightship's fog whistle was heard. Every officer on the Olympic's bow agreed the sound was off the starboard bow. To play safe Captain Binks ordered the helmsmen to veer ten degrees farther to port. When the lightship was amazingly sighted dead ahead through the fog it was too late to avoid collision...
...fast chart to which is electrically transmitted the power station chart-record. The radio announcer says: "Those ready to vote, push the 'Present' button." Thousands of voters push. This sudden mass consumption of extra current causes the recording line on the power house and studio charts to veer almost at right angles, forming a needle-like peak. Since each push-button consumes a measured amount of current, the height of this peak can at once be translated into the approximate number of voters. The announcer then asks for a "Yes" ballot, in a few moments more...
...drowsy he will set his controls, set the clock for ten minutes and doze off. At ten minutes the siren will howl, the tank will squirt cold water in the General's face. Siren and water spout are also adjusted to shriek and squirt if the plane should veer from her course, droop from her altitude. Said General de Pinedo...
There was a chance that the wind would veer and drive them all back to shore. But when the floe with most of the dogs disappeared, together with three floes with stores, no matter what thereafter might happen, the expedition was ruined. Captain Riiser-Larsen rigged up his portable wireless, called for help...