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Planes Ordered. Contracts for 147 service and battle planes were let by the Navy. Ordered also were 168 motors. Total cost...
Monster Seaplane. To the Glenn L. Martin Co. went a Navy contract for the largest, most powerful, fastest flying boat ever developed. Specifications: three Pratt & Whitney motors producing 1,725 h. p. Top speed, 140 m. p. h. Cruising radius, 2,000 miles. Crew, five men. Cost, $150,000. Construction time, one year. This all-metal seaplane will serve the Navy as a "fighting patrol...
Prior to Cadet Parham in West Point's history, many a Negro had applied for admission. Twelve got in, three were graduated as second lieutenants. The last Negro Cadet was James B. Alexander of Ohio who entered in 1918, resigned after six months. The cost to the U. S. of making an Army officer out of each West Point cadet, white or black...
Purpose: Economy, easier handling, prevention of counterfeiting. The Treasury's annual savings: $552,520 on paper, $120,000 on ink, $1,000,000 on labor. Average span of life of old-sized bill: eight months. The Treasury's expectation for the new bill: twelve months or more. Cost of producing each bill 7/10?. Time of production: 30 days. The first set of new bills went to Secretary Mellon. To the Clerk of the House of Representatives were sent 435 new $1 bills, one for each Congressman (in exchange...
Selling health on the instalment plan was last fortnight suggested to the Chicago Medical Society. President-elect Dr. James H. Hutton suggested that, physicians, when they are called on a new case, estimate the total cost of treatment, have the patient sign notes for the expected bill. The notes would bear 6% interest charges and would fall due at regular intervals, like instalments on a motor or radio. The doctor would take the notes to a special financing corporation and get $35 for every $100 which his patient was to owe him. When the full bill was paid...