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This method is the official U.S. Navy system for salvaging submarines. It consists of sinking pontoons on either side of a sunken vessel, attaching chains under it, and pumping the air from the ship and pontoons. Captain Ellsberg said that the operation was simplified by the fact that the U.S.S. Monitor foundered in a gale, and was presumably undamaged...
...Navy's fondest dreams has always been the "true submarine"-an underwater vessel that never has to surface to charge its batteries, and needs no snorkel-like breathing apparatus. Last week there were some guarded indications that the true sub was out of the dream stage at last. Said Atomic Energy Commissioner Sumner Pike: "In an attempt to get useful power from atomic fission, we are engaged in the design and construction of a power plant for naval submarines. The design of two practical, though expensive, devices for submarine propulsion is practically complete, and one of them is partly...
...stolen, would do to mix the magic in. In The Tempest, for instance, the plot is the tired old story about a nobleman, bilked of his estates, who takes refuge on a distant island, and mild revenge on his enemies when they are shipwrecked there. Yet in this common vessel, Shakespeare stirred a wizard's brew of steaming language and the rich juice of 30 years' experience; the mixture mulled, at the last stir of the action, into a fine philosophical poem...
...model," he began, "I went dutifully to the anatomy theater in Moscow. Later I was found in a dead faint on the pavement outside . . . But Mrs. Nature you can't fool with her. She's a tenacious woman . . . Twenty years later I discovered what a marvelous transparent vessel the human being is-like a crystal jungle. From that time on, I was trapped in interior landscape." He went back and studied anatomy. "Then I came to what I'm doing now . . . I want these heads to be as brilliant as neon lights...
...Great Britain-6,000 men, two patrol squadrons of Sunderland flying boats, two aircraft carriers with planes, two light cruisers, five destroyers, three frigates, one auxiliary vessel...