Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . Would suggest that FOREIGN NEWS confine itself to less trivial items. Refer TIME, April 4, COMMONWEALTH. Largely the fact that Friend Peel opens a road house ia of no particular interest or influence to anybody; as a sign of changed times that the type of thing is already history...
...Glenn L. Martin Co. of Cleveland, famed airplane makers, was last week given a U. S. Navy contract for 54 bombing and torpedo planes. The Navy also took an option to buy 96 more planes of the same type within five weeks. The 54 planes already contracted for will cost $1,560,000; the entire order will assure a full year of steady work to the 800 Glenn L. Martin employes...
...extended the idea to include not only college boys but also businessmen. Plattsburg quickly became the centre of the military training camp idea, had more than 27,000 enrollments in 1917 before the U. S. entered the World War. With the U. S. actually in the conflict, Plattsburg-type camps gave thousands of men the training that fitted them for their commissions...
Some citizens of the U. S. wondered last week, if this so "unAmerican" super-service is given over U. S.-made telephones. It is not. Swedes long ago refused to tolerate the heavy, antiquated type of instrument which requires two hands to lift it from the table and manipulate it. The "Made in Sweden" telephone is a one-handed device, weighing only a few ounces, combining the transmitter and receiver in a single mounting. Therefore, and because of their excellent quality, Swedish telephones have been very widely adopted for the newer installations in Europe, Asia, Latin America...
Then Giuseppe Mario Bellanca began to put sticks and canvas together. His first plane, a compromise in design between his own ideas and those of his friends who furnished the money, crashed at the start of its maiden voyage. He was convinced that the early pusher type of plane with propeller in the rear was wrong. His next plane, which he hoped would conquer the English channel, was designed with the propeller in front, No one seemed anxious to purchase a motor for him, so he stayed on the ground-again disappointed-while Louis Blériot crossed the English...