The Man Who Rocked the Earth

Language: en

From the book:It was three minutes past three postmeridian in the operating room of the new Wireless Station recently installed at the United States Naval Observatory at Georgetown. Bill Hood, the afternoon operator, was sitting in his shirt sleeves with his receivers at his ears, smoking a corncob pipe and awaiting a call from the flagship Lincoln of the North Atlantic Patrol with which, somewhere just off Hatteras, he had been in commu-nication a few moments before. The air was quiet. Hood was a fat man, and so of course good-natured; but he was serious about his work and hated all…