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...passengers, including Publisher Noble A. Cathcart of Saturday Review of Literature, were accused of hoarding. The ship's stewards asserted that more liquor was purchased that night than on five round trips to Bermuda, but the party was not rowdy. Next morning fog again bound the vessel off Cape Cod and it became apparent that it could not land in time for the game. Philosophically the passengers turned to Hochheimer wine. An electrician repaired the radio, wrecked the night before by a jealous accordion-player. Doubly disappointed was Walter J. Salmon who had elected to go to the game...
...groped my way forward and, after several narrow escapes of going overboard, managed to take in the mainsail, then sailed on under reduced canvas, steering by the wind and a sense of direction, hoping that some vessel would come near enough to be hailed...
...were of the S. S. Baden-Baden, once famed as the rotor ship invented by Anton Flettner (TIME, May 24, 1926) but since converted into an ordinary Diesel-powered cargo carrier. Bound from Riohacha for Tumaco on the west coast of Colombia with a cargo of salt, the vessel had become disabled in heavy weather. The cargo shifted, the ship listed heavily to starboard, shipping water faster than the disabled pumps could pour it out. She foundered less than a half hour before the Pan American plane sighted what remained of the crew of 16 (five men, including...
...walls of veins may become weak; then varicose veins. The arteries may become stiff and unyielding to the pulsating blood; this hardening of the arteries. A clot of blood may be caught (thrombosed) in a narrowed artery causing a damming of the blood flow and a bursting of the vessel...
Aboard the vessel matters run smoothly. No attempt is made to speed the motors or submit the craft to stress; this is the most elementary of a series of tests. The radioman flashes to the White House the Akron's first message, in reply to a radiogram signed "Lou Henry Hoover" who christened the ship (TIME, Aug. 10). A dinner of broiled chicken, salad, ice cream, cake and coffee is served from the galley. President Paul Weeks Litchfield does not eat. Says he later: "I was too excited. I don't get to ride in the world...