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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Program. General Bonzani, Italian Undersecretary for Aviation, announced last week that Italy now possesses 800 "front line combat airplanes,"* and that "the Department of Italian Industry is making satisfactory progress on 600 new planes, 250 of which will be of all-metal construction of the most recent type...
...Curtiss planes used are of a new commercial type called "Carrier Pigeons." The transport company is maintaining ten of them, each costing: $20,000. Specifications: 400-horse Liberty motor, 42-ft. wingspread, 28 ft. long, 12 ft. high, 3,500 Ib. weight, average speed 100 miles per hour. The heaviest load carried on the first day was 276½lb. of mail (about 10,000 letters). The first day's total postage: $8,411.14. The post-office rates: 10? an ounce between Chicago and Dallas; 15? an ounce to points east of Chicago...
...type of impetus to civilian aviation came forth last week when the War Department sanctioned a Government aviation unit to be established at New York University in conjunction with the Guggenheim School of Aviation, inaugurated there four years ago and expanded last year by $500,000 from Daniel Guggenheim for an aviation building unique* among U. S. universities. The U. S. unit at the school will consist of a regular flying officer detailed, with special equipment, to assist Professor Alexander Klemin, the head of the school, and train the graduates to eligibility for commissions in the Flying Corps...
...primary and secondary school work. There is far too little known in this day of changing conceptions and fluctuating principles about the exact mental, physical, and moral discipline which the modern child requires. With the home leaning, from either ignorance or pure selfishness, upon the school, a higher type of educator is most necessary that the colleges need not click their gates against faces more ambitious than intelligent...
Cervix Uteri. Grant E. Ward of the Howard A. Kelly Hospital, Baltimore, explained to the A.M.A. Dallas visitors the radium treatment developed there for this type of cancer in the last 18 years. He described the apparatus used and the principle underlying the technique employed. In many cases radium has improved the patients, both symptomatically and physically...