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...tension had been too much, the days at home after I knew I was going to Rome, the days on the vessel. . . . Well, after a while, I was able to get control of myself. I think my hysterics were those of joy. I went to bed, but I could not sleep for happiness...
...flagship of her line, equipped with all modern navigation gadgets. Her commander, towheaded Captain Einar William Sundstrom, had a fine reputation for seamanship. Of his 50 years, 34 had been spent at sea. No stranger to marine disaster, he had been rammed off Galveston Bay, brought a vessel safely through a 120-m.p.h. hurricane. Of a philosophical turn of mind, Captain Sundstrom had observed upon taking command of the Dixie last year: "You've always got to be on guard against the oceans. They may look peaceful and act peaceful for a long time. That's your good...
Month ago, the Cunard White Star liner Laurentic suffered a minor collision as she left England on a Mediterranean cruise, had to transfer her passengers to the Doric of the same line. Last week, this 16,484-ton vessel was churning blithely back from Gibraltar in a woolly fog 36 miles off Portugal. Since it was 3:15 a. m., most of her crew and passengers were asleep. Suddenly, they were jolted wide awake as the squat French freighter Formigny plowed into the Doric, dealt her an 18-ft. gash at the waterline below the bridge. Speedily, Captain Grieg issued...
...Winston, mindful that the U. S. has no diamond to compare with it in size,* assumed an air of national trusteeship, said he would carry it to Manhattan himself on a U. S. boat. Said he: "I do not think the American people would like it brought on a vessel of any other nation...
Father Nieuwland helped the du Pont group under Wallace H. Carothers prepare the monovinyl, suggested catalysts for changing it to chlorobutadiene. Carothers found that after standing ten days in a closed vessel, chlorobutadiene became an elastic mass like rubber. Thus Duprene. Last summer du Pont announced that Duprene automobile tires were satisfactory in every respect (TIME, July...