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...many-motored DO-X, back in Germany after her winter in the U. S., roared over Fehmarn Belt last week, a strait between Schleswig-Holstein and the Danish island of Laaland. Down below was a little grey barkentine plowing through the water with all sails set: the German naval training ship Niobe. It was a bright sunny afternoon but the air was rough. The DO-X dipped low over the Niobe in salute, then hurried...
Burned blackly into medical annals is the fire in Surgeon George Washington Crile's .Cleveland Clinic (TIME, May 27, 1929). The fire occurred in a basement room wherein were stored x-ray films. The burning films emitted fumes (carbon monoxide and nitrogen tetroxide) which killed scores of Dr. Crile's patients, doctors and employes on the spot. Other scores died during the following weeks. Deaths eventually totalled...
...week were shunted the biggest flatcars that railroad men could round up. One day soon, part of the factory walls will be taken down, out will come the hull of the biggest flying boat ever built in the U. S., second in size only to Germany's DO-X. It will be shipped to the Navy at Hampton Roads...
...ship is intended for long-distance patrol flight, heavy bombing. Except for fabric coverings of wing and tail surfaces, it is built of metal, principally aluminum. Four Curtiss engines will be mounted on the 100-ft. wing. Hull length: 70 ft. (DO-X dimensions: wingspread 157 ft.; length...
...Gale's Class-A sloop, Malabar X: the annual race of the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, from Montauk Point, L. I., to Hamilton, Bermuda: in 3 days 3 hr. 42 min. 29 sec., with a time allowance of, 5 hr. 53 min. 41 sec. Clarence Kozlay of West Orange, N. J. was drowned when the largest boat in the race, James H. Ottley's schooner Adriana, caught fire and sank 80 miles off Montauk. Four days after the race's end, the U. S. Coast Guard began hunting for the missing...