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...miles off the Irish coast. Aboard were 46 survivors of the City of Benares, in the sudden sinking of which fortnight ago 83 children and 210 adults were thought lost. The 20-ton flying boat, running short of fuel, signaled her relief plane, which in turn signaled a warship...
...millionaires." He therefore attached an excess-profits tax, like a price tag, to two other pieces of defense legislation that businessmen, the Defense Advisory Commission, the Treasury, the Army & Navy all wanted: 1) repeal of the Vinson-Trammell Act's profit limitation on plane and warship orders; 2) permission for defense manufacturers to amortize new plants (for tax purposes) in the short space of five years (TIME, Aug. 19). These two laws were still wrapped up in the Excess Profits Tax Act this week. For their sake, it had to pass...
...brother Derek. Twice she had been washed off by the sea but both times she had been rescued. "When we laid down our heads," she said, "we were in the water. When we tried to sit up we were blown down again by the wind. . . . When we found the warship we all stood up and cheered and shouted for the good old British Navy. The Navy men helped us up a rope ladder -first an arm and then a leg-and I could not help thinking how funny it was. The sailors gave us rum to drink. It was horrible...
...Aegean island port of Tinos, carrying an official delegation to participate in the celebration of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and bathe in the holy waters of that island. At 8:30, while crowds of celebrants strolled the harbor front, a torpedo clove the water beside the warship, exploded against a breakwater. A second torpedo missed the Helle and exploded before the village. A third found its mark, burst in the Helle's boiler room. The Helle sank an hour and 15 minutes later. Casualties: nine dead (one of heart failure); 22 wounded, some by stone fragments...
...celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Riachuelo, great Brazilian naval victory over Paraguay, tubby little Getulio Vargas went aboard a warship in Rio de Janeiro harbor, and, after wining well, got up to address the assembled officers. It was the day after President Roosevelt's Charlottesville speech and President Getulio first paid his respects to hemisphere solidarity. "We are united by ties of strict solidarity with all American countries around the ideas, aspirations and common interest in our defense," said...