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...Problem. The Government owns a large part of the U. S. Merchant Marine, a portion of which was built or acquired during the War. It manages to operate a good portion of the ships it owns. In the fiscal year of 1923-24, it lost some $36,000,000 on its fleet-$3,000,000 a month. Of this amount, about 80% was actual operating loss. The largest reason for this loss is the poor condition of the shipping industry...
...house, when it was building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was in buildinq."-1 Kings...
...built Solomon, his workmen coming and going on silent feet, fretful lest any noise should affront the ears of the Lord. But in Washington, D. C, hammers ring all day, all week, resting only on the Sabbath. For there, to the greater glory of God, men are buiding a Cathedral, named after the city in which it stands. A year ago, the foundations were finished; and it was seen that they were good. A fund of $10,000,000 is being raised to complete the Cathedral. Money comes in; new contracts are let. It is prophesied that the sound...
...possible from the engine, particularly not along the line of the motor and the longitudinal axis of the machine. The inherent stability which the code insists on would lessen chances of losing-control. Grover C. Loening, famed aeronautical engineer, has suggested that crash-proof passenger cabins might be built, immune from injury no matter the height of fall. This may be too much to hope for. The code at least demands that all edges of cockpits shall be well padded and that the padding should be extended to cover the front, part of cockpit or passenger cabin against which...
Finished in 1874, the wing of Memorial Hall built for a "commons", has been used ever since as a University Dining Room. For years it was so crowded that the University authorities decided upon an extension and in the summer of 1905 an additional wing on the Kirkland Street side was built in order to provide larger kitchen space. In those days the Dining Hall, filled to overflowing with students, presented a spectacle like that in the commons of an English college today...