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...imagined. He was investigating with the concentration of his student days the organization plans of foreign armies. Nor did his conventional forays into Washington society (he much prefers less formal fun) give proper perspective to the long evenings spent at his office and home across the Potomac at Fort Myer, digesting and arranging the material he had gathered. Result of these studies was his ''Four-Army Plan" of mobilization and command...
...wind made the blade work sloppy, but the first-year men crossed the finish line after 4 minutes and 10 seconds, with the third Varsity and 150 pound crews coming in not far behind. Fourth, fifth, and sixth positions were taken by three crews of inexperienced Freshmen, stroked by Myer, Bennett, and McClennan. The tail-enders were the two other boats of experienced Freshmen...
...Course of the Coming Boom [in Britain]. Just after President Roosevelt took office Major Angas wrote The Coming Rise in Wall Street, which was followed by a 90% jump in the stockmarket. More to the point, Major Angas has been adviser to the big London stock exchange house of Myer & Co., has a short but imposing list of clients and drives a Rolls-Royce...
...years ago the U. S. Army Air Corps consisted of one plane and one pilot. He was a keen-eyed, pipe-smoking bantam named Lieut. Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois. Up from the ranks of infantry, he joined the Signal Corps in 1908, learned to fly balloons, went to Fort Myer, Va. where Orville Wright was trying to sell the Army its first airplane. He laid out the test course-the amazing distance of ten miles-and was chosen official passenger by Orville Wright for two reasons. First, he weighed only 126 Ib. Second, as Orville Wright put it, "You laid...
...season completed the State of Florida had already collected over $200,000 in taxes on betting and admissions-$50,000 more than last year. Crowds swarmed to Henry L. Doherty's Miami-Biltmore horseshow at Tropical Park to see an Army jumping team from Fort Riley beat Forts Myer, Sill, Benning, McPherson and Oglethorpe. In a Miami store window a pair of Primo Camera's giant clodhoppers stood filled with pennies-offering a pair of free tickets to this week's Camera-Tommy Loughran championship fight to whoever guessed most accurately their contents...