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...that reply the natives lowered their spears and walked the flyer 25 miles to the home of an English missionary, who cared for him and put him aboard a small sailing vessel bound for Australia...
...future. Last week aggressive, farsighted Glenn L. Martin, who 29 years ago helped the Army with its first bombardment experiment, and who has specialized in making giant multiengined airplanes ever since, told engineers in Detroit: "My company already has plans for a 250,000-pound commercial air vessel. . . . Our studies show that no technical considerations limit the size of airplanes. . . . We should be able to build 500,000-lb. airplanes in a very few years...
Next morning three British motor gunboats-about the same size as the E-boats but slightly slower, more heavily gunned and carrying no torpedoes-caught an E-boat off the German base at Ijmuiden on the Dutch coast and left it sinking. In another engagement a British vessel fought off three E-boats until its ammunition was gone, damaged one, retired. A squadron of Spitfire fighters sighted four E-boats, one of them crippled from a previous clash. The Germans put up a screen of flak, but the British planes dived right through it, opening up with their...
...Stumpy, bony-jawed William R. Lowans, ordinary seaman, was in the "pot" (crow's-nest) of a U.S. Navy vessel at twilight one day last week, standing watch on his first trip to sea. Heavy seas frosted his binoculars, rendered them useless. But he kept to the watch. Said he: "I seen this object with my naked eye. It looked like a yaller box, maybe three miles off." The bridge could not see it, pooh-poohed his warning until a ruby-red SOS light appeared. "It" was an orange life raft from a torpedoed ship. Six survivors...
...dawns again for the Tuttles when they salvage a cargo vessel, loaded with gasoline and other stores, abandoned by its crew in a hurricane. With their 400,000 francs prize money, they open a joint checking account, and the wackiest spending spree Tahiti ever...