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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Almost equally secretive was Agent General Seymour Parker Gilbert, when cornered by ship-news reporters on the Berengaria. With hands clasped behind his back, Mr. Gilbert rose slightly on the balls of his feet and observed: "You must realize, gentlemen, that this is a good time for me to be silent...
Back and forth they swept, between Los Angeles and San Diego. Every so often the Question Mark took on fuel. This required uncanny air jockeying. Only, 15 feet directly above the Question Mark flew a fuelling plane piloted by Capt. R. G. Hoyt or Lieut. Odas Moon. From this plane dangled a thin rubber hose. While the planes zoomed at 75 miles an hour Lieut. Harry Halverson aboard the Question Mark reached out, grabbed the hose, thrust it into the tanks. Once there was bungling. Gasoline was spilt. Major Carl Spatz, the commander, was burned. Lieut. Elwood Quesada was overcome...
...admitted, donned the rude brown habit with hempen girdle, the sandals on his bare feet. That was two years ago. Word of his entering the monastery spread through the land...
From 178th Street in New York City the mightiest of suspension bridges is being built, across the Hudson River. Its span will be 3,500 feet, its weight 90,000 tons, its cost $60,000,000. Like mechanistic titans, its two towers will stand 635 feet above the river.* Last week they had risen more than 450 feet, were visible for miles around. They shone with the preliminary coat of bright red paint which is applied to most steel structures.† An artist named McClelland Barclay saw the glowing towers of the Hudson bridge. He was inspired. "The new bridge...
...tank is a submarine-shaped affair 35 feet long and eight in diameter which was constructed to investigate the effect on men of working under increased and decreased pressures and also to try the cure of respiratory diseases by regulated atmospheric changes. It consists of two chambers with a lock between them, and was built for the School at Akron, Ohio, according to plans drawn by A. J. Van Woert of the Engineering School...