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...Since the War, the developments in serial photography have been, for the most part, along the lines of improved mapping cameras to give accurate results which can furnish pictures with more detail and correctness. In the field of gathering information concerning troop movements, the aim has been to spot them with greater speed and accuracy. For this purpose larger cameras have been constructed to keep pace with improved aircraft which have a higher ceiling, and since more and more efficient planes are being constructed, photography must not fall behind...
...destroyers. Like sluggish metal fish, six submarines crawled along with decks awash. Plowing forward in the procession were the Lexington and the Saratoga with aircraft on their flat backs. Mine sweepers, oilers, repair, supply and hospital ships, seagoing camp-followers, all bunched together in a guarded block. Theoretically 25 troop transports accompanied the armada, carrying a command of 40.000 men under Major General Malin Craig. Actual personnel of this Blue fleet, about to engage with the Black defenders of the Hawaiian Islands in Grand Joint Exercise No. 4, was 27.250 officers...
Flowers & Farewell? With Messrs. Gibson and Davis already in Europe, Delegates Woolley and Swanson sailed from New York fortnight ago on the President Harding. A troop of advisers, technical experts, aides and clerks accompanied them. Also, several peace organizations sent along unofficial delegates of their own. Peace petitions were signed and loaded aboard. When the ship sailed Aviatrix Ruth Nichols flew round the masts clad in a purple leather jacket, went aboard at Quarantine and presented Delegate Woolley with two large bunches of spring flowers. The Federal Council of Churches gave the delegates its blessing and called for a nation...
...Last week onetime Lloyd liners Kronprinzessin Cecilie (Mount Vernon) and Kaiser Wilhelm II (Monticello), inactive ever since they were seized by the U. S. and used for troop ships during the War, were offered for sale by the U. S. Shipping Board as scrap. Famed was the escape from British destroyers of the Kronprinzessin Cecilie, freighted with $10,000,000 gold, into the neutral waters of Bar Harbor, Maine...
...Steuer soon belied his original observation concerning the difficulty of proving that "there is a Mrs. Erlanger." In order to show that his client was married by common law he had to show that Mr. Erlanger had acknowledged her as his wife. To do this he called in a troop of witnesses who had known her as Mrs. Erlanger. First were a housekeeper, an old friend, two assistants in a photographer's studio. Then came a lawyer who said Erlanger had feared that his brother would "make trouble"; the lawyer's wife, who said that Charlotte Fixel, writing...