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Byrd had left his Navy sets behind at Boston and again at Wiscasset during the preparations, either persuaded that they were superfluous or that the boats had no room for 2,000 Ib. more freight. Therefore, the destroyer Putnam was despatched to Sydney with the missing sets, MacMillan assured the Navy Department they would be installed. Soon after the expedition was steaming for Battle Harbor, Labrador, with it going Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, physician-missionary to the Eskimos, returning to his Battle Harbor Mission for the summer...
...average price obtained throughout the year by one well-known con pany was only about 18? per Ib. for its rubber; and, as many companies could not produce at this price, it meant that within a short time most of the plantations would again become jungle. If this had happened, tens of millions of people in this country would have been deprived of the use of automobiles. If these companies had gone into the hands of receivers, there is little doubt that the American consumers of rubber would have bought up these plantations at a cost which would have been...
...heavy to be swayed by any bellringers, no matter how much they caper or warm their fingers. Biggest of all was the great bell of Moscow, cast around 1734, now used as the dome of a chapel. Other big bells are those of Burma, weight, 260,000 Ib.; Peking, 130,000 Ib.; House of Parliament, London, 30,000 Ib.; Montreal Cathedral, 28,560 Ib.; Notre Dame, Paris, 28,672 Ib.; St. Peter's, Rome, 18,600 Ib.; St. Paul's, London...
What are the figures of the Air Mail? In the last two years and nine months, the Post Office aviators have flown about 9,000,000 mi. They have carried 157,000,000 letters or nearly 4,000,000 Ib. of mail. They have lost only 125 Ib. of mail-a better record than that of the railroads. In the first nine months of this year, they flew 1,492,167 mi. and had only one fatal accident. They started night-flying July 1 and, between this date and Sept. 30, flew by night without a fatal accident. They...
...British Air Ministry; now comes a Super Seaplane for the U. S. Navy. A gigantic flying boat is to be used for long-distance scouting in the Pacific. Appropriately enough, it has been ordered from the Boeing Airplane Co. of Seattle, Wash. Fully loaded, the seaplane weighs 24,000 Ib. It has a span of wing of 87 ft. 6 in., a chord or width of 14 ft., a total area in its biplane wings of 2,400 sq. ft. The sturdy 60-ft. hull, built of the wonderfully light and strong duralumin, is lighter and less liable to soakage...