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...Lockheed Orion, a seven-passenger cabin plane with low wing and retractable landing gear, designed to fly 220 m. p. h., first of a fleet to be operated on Bowen air lines between Washington and Dallas...
Launched. At Bloehm & Voss's yards in Hamburg, Germany, for Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader of Philadelphia: Savarona, biggest yacht in the world, 407 ft. 10 in. (65 ft. longer than John Pierpont Morgan's new Corsair, 74 ft. longer than Julius Forstmann's Orion), with turbine engines developing 7,200 h. p., a speed of 17 knots, a crew of 100, built (with a gyrostabilizer) to look like a little ocean liner. Estimated cost...
...long, dark, heavy underneath; paler, suaver in the superstructure. Owner's quarters include a stateroom, office, bath, and big cedar closet. There are five staterooms for guests on the starboard side and a pantry, galley, and laundry to port. The Corsair IV is ten feet longer than the Orion, erstwhile "biggest in the world," built last year in Kiel for Julius Forstmann, New Jersey textile manufacturer...
...class of Meteoritic Associations brings together for the first time comets and the great diffuse nebulae, such as that of Orion...
Julius Forstmann, textile tycoon of Passaic, N. J., steamed into New York harbor on the world's largest, costliest yacht ($2,000,000), his new Orion...