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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army and Navy, and was recently awarded a contract by the latter for some $750,000 worth of airplanes, floats, and spares. 7) That Great Lakes does indeed produce amphibions (note spelling) and cabin ships in "small numbers"-in fact, no numbers at all, although it has built an experimental amphibion. . . . 8) That, unless the basis for comparison be automobiles or some similar commodity, the present rate of production on the well-known Great Lakes Sport Trainer could hardly be classed as "small numbers," since it stands at four complete airplanes...
...Bedford whalers, her only rival for that distinction having been lost during the filming of Down to the Sea in Ships. The Charles W. Morgan has been, through the interest of Col. Green and others, made into a whaling museum, rigged and outfitted as she was when she was built and made her first voyage in 1849. Aboard her as master is Capt. George Fred Tilton, whose autobiography, Cap'n George Fred, was published by Doubleday, Doran in 1928. He is the last of the old whaling skip pers. His book is interesting, but his lectures are far more...
...circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price $40,950. The museum (largest south of the Mason-Dixon line) is built of marble taken from the temples of ancient Greece...
...Bradstreet report based on building permits in 187 U. S. cities summed up this slump in the form of a concise figure. That figure was 23.4%. It represented the decrease in building for August 1929, compared to August 1928. It meant, roughly speaking, that for every four structures built during August 1928 only three were being built during August 1929-a startling shrinkage in so basic an industry. Greatest decline, however (45%) was in New York; decrease outside the metropolis stood...
Getting dollars to replace pfennigs is almost as devious and difficult. The Graf Zeppelin was built by pfennigs. In 1925 the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin was virtually bankrupt. Two ships which it had built, the Nordstern and Bodensee (since wrecked) were confiscated by France and Italy for War damages. The Los Angeles the U. S. forced it to build. Dr. Eckener, great publicist,* organized the Zeppelin- Eckener Spends (gifts, alms) and despatched collectors with small boxes to German street corners, theatres, beer halls, to collect pfennigs from money-pinched patriots. The pfennigs totalled enough to build the Graf Zeppelin...