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...customer at U. S. Army auctions, buying saddles, old band uniforms, boots and flags. Its 350-page catalog contains such items as: "U. S. A. 30-ton Hydraulic Jack, used for mounting heavy cannon, $30." Once, at a South American country's urgent request, Bannerman's changed a passenger steamship into a battleship in one week. The store also has large supplies of ammunition for sale. These are kept on Banner-man's Island, in the Hudson near Cornwall, N. Y. The Bannerman family spend vacations at this castellated arsenal but very seldom have visitors. A careless cigaret would blow...
...commonplace as a steamship crossing" was considered by many a fairly far-fetched prediction for dirigible travel in the near future. Yet last week, with so little fanfare that few in the U. S. were aware of it, the Graf Zeppelin visited Rio de Janeiro with passengers & mail on her fifth voyage from Friedrichshafen since Aug. 28. At the same time in Akron, Ohio an important milestone was passed in U. S. dirigible development. On the strength of a radiogram from the Secretary of the Navy, Lieut. Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle, naval inspector of construction of the airship Akron...
...That International Mercantile Marine will sell one-half of its wholly-owned Roosevelt Steamship Co. to the Dollar-Dawson-Fleishhacker group...
...That non-conflicting sailing schedules will be worked out for Dollar Steamship Lines and I. M. M.'s Panama Pacific Line. Thus, the Roosevelt-Astor-Franklin-Dollar-Dawson-Chapman-Fleishhacker combination will be engaged in world-wide trade as follows...
...plus the friendship of young John M. Franklin, resulted in control of I. M. M. of which young Mr. Franklin's father remains titular head. That the young men are determined to make the landed Astor money succeed on the high seas is the big new fact on Steamship...