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...America's Cup races are concerned. In August at Newport the elimination races will be held and one boat chosen to sail for the U. S. against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V. Each yacht costs about $200,000 to build, $150,000 to equip, $200,000 to run for a summer. Already Enterprise has five suits of sails. Sails for all the "J" boats are made at City Island by Ratsey & Lapthorn, Inc. Each boat has a crew of 36 big-eating seamen and a fleet of satellites - a towing tender, a mothership or houseboat with quarters...
Wilkins' plan is to equip the submarine with an ice drill, capable of piercing 50 ft. of ice from beneath, to enable him to stop the craft under the polar ice pack, take on fresh air, recharge batteries, make observations. A trolley riding on the under side of the ice would indicate the position of the boat. A pressure lock would enable men in diving suits to leave and re-enter the submerged ship...
...Education. "If and when the high schools and colleges devise methods which select and retain their students more wisely, arouse in the great majority of them real intellectual interest . . . and equip them for life more skilfully and promptly, co-education at those ages might conceivably be advisable...
...reluctance of the Air Corps to re-equip with monoplanes has been due to incomplete research into wing construction. At extreme speeds, a monoplane wing is subject to "flutter," or rhythmic oscillation, which leads to rapid destruction of the member involved. The new Boeing model has satisfactorily overcome this difficulty, performs better than its biplane cousin. Equipped with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp motor, supercharged to develop 475 h. p., it cruises at 165 m. p. h., has a high speed well in excess of 200 m. p. h. It carries two machine guns shooting through the propeller, a bomb-rack...
...assistant director of athletics stated, Muir will be in the pool every day to give instruction in swimming. On Wednesday he will give the first installment of a ten-hour Red Cross life-saving course. The course will be given on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and is designed to equip men better for assuming duties as counsellors in camps during the summer. Last year 41 Seniors passed the tests and 13 licensed examiners in life-saving were created...