ATLANTIC IN FOUR DAYS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20289, 23 December 1927, Page 16

ATLANTIC IN FOUR DAYS.

Ten fast steamships capable of making a speed of 35 nautical miles an hour are projected for transatlantic service following the completion of satisfactory tests in the Naval .Basin, Washington, to determine the practicability of a new type of ocean ship to cross the Atlantic in four days, it has been been announced by Lawrence R. Wilder, former _ president _ of the American Brown-Boveri Corporation, and now chairman of . that company’s shipbuilding division. The tests demonstrated, it was stated, that vessels can attain a speed 50 per cent, greater than the present-day passenger steamships, using half as much fuel, and requiring only one-third as largo a crow. The model tested developed a speed of 33 knots under water conditions simulating a severe North Atlantic storm. Daily sailings of vessels are envisaged with terminals at New London (Conn.), or Montauk Point (Long Island), with Southampton and Havre as the European terminals. The ships will be exclusively for 400 first-class passengers in cabins somewhat larger than Pullman drawing rooms, with the remainder of the space devoted to mails and cargo.' The vessels, which will fly the American flag, arc to be of 20,000 tons gross, and will be approximately 800 ft in length, have an 80ft beam, and draw about 25ft of. water. It is also intended to carry American. French, and British Customs officers on board to avoid delay for bageage inspection at each end of the line. A female witness in one of the courts in Berlin who tried to freshen her appearance with lipstick and powder was severely reprimanded by the fudge, and fined for contempt of court. Women n court made a demonstration against the decision, but the judge did not relent. The heneficient effects of cod liver ml for children has been liaeed to the presence of vitamin .A. It is now found by various tests that many animals are more suitable than ■ d for the production of Inis vitamine. ~nd dial the liver of the sheep is 10 limes richer in this essential than that of the cod, as is also the liver of the grouse.