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Anti-aircraft fire: Tests against cloth targets* towed behind airplanes at 4,500 feet, targets smaller than the area-bombing plane, showed that the anti-aircraft guns scored one or more direct hits in 75% of the trials. The Navy has a gun that fires 13-pound projectiles 24,000 feet in the air, and another that fires 50-pound projectiles 28,500 feet, both of which fire 14 shots a minute?so that a battery of eight projectiles can deliver 112 shots a minute; also, machine guns that will fire 400 half-inch projectiles a minute to a height...
...matter of fact, its area and position are inexactly known, because, no doubt, it varies in extent. It consists of seaweed assembled in that very mild sort of eddy which is developed by the Gulf Stream on the one side and by the Equatorial Current on the other. Similar aggregations of weeds, though smaller in extent, exist under like conditions in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The weeds, however, are not dense. They grow in patches here and there over the area, affording food for marine life...
...same time, Thomas J. Daly, agent for the owner of Beck Hall, made public his plans to tear down the old dormitory and erect in its place a large apartment house and a row of stores. The land, a total area of 31,000 square feet, was first offered to Mr. Wyner for his hotel, in the event that the University should buy the Mt. Auburn Street property...
College polo officials are in a quandary owing to the recent decision by the Second Corps Area not to hold the intercollegiate polo tournament this year under its auspices as it has done since the championships began in 1923. The Second Corps Area notified the United States Polo Association of its decision last Saturday...
Major General C. P. Summerall, who is in command of the Area in his letter to Mr. L. E. Stoddard, chairman of the United States Polo Association stated that it would be impossible for the army to hold the tournament again because of the limited facilities at Fort Hamilton. Major General Summerall further said that "if college polo be only a college sport without any military benefits perhaps the United States Polo Association would be better fitted to organize and sponsor such an intercollegiate association than the army." Collegiate polo is well advanced, Major General Summerall thinks, and further military...