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...peasants waving American flags, with General Pershing, Admiral Gleaves, Ambassador Herrick, and General Gouraud looking on, the canvas was lifted from Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's* inspired masterpiece. The statue stands 300 ft. out in the harbor on a 70-ft. masonry pillar. The eagle has a tensile wingspread of 35 ft. The Bretons gazed in wonder at the power and grace of Mrs. Whitney's work...
...Harry Payne Whitney's group to commemorate the landing of U. S. troops at St. Nazaire was there-an eagle with 35 feet of tensile wingspread alighting on French soil with a virile young idealist on his back. One marveled at the power this slight Mrs. Whitney can put forth...
...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...
...airplanes slid out of the sky and alighted at Boiling Field, Washington. A delegation carrying an invitation climbed out and proceeded to the White House. Mr. Coolidge received them. The spokesman, Capt. Edward V. ("Eddie"), Rickenbacker, made a little "speech and presented the strange invitation-an airplane with a wingspread of about two feet, and on its upper wing the words...
...Often the mounds were piled up in the images of animals. In Wisconsin are buffalo, moose, elk, deer, fox, wolf, panther, lynx and eagle tumuli, evidently of totemic significance, the actual graves being dug hard by. These images are enormous: eagles with 1,000 ft. wingspread; panthers with 350-ft. tails. The Great Serpent Mound (Adams County, Ohio) is 1,348 ft. long, following the curves of the body and the triple-coiled tail. The opened jaws are 75 ft. across, yawning at a smaller mound -which resembles a frog...