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Land Reclaimed. Area devastated, 8,242,390 acres. Area restored, as on July 1, 1923, 7,746,655 acres...
...area will serve primarily as a site for the university baseball diamond, and stands for 6000 are included in the plans. In the future, moreover, it is expected that a stadium will also be constructed near the field to accomodate the University football and track teams...
Silk Industry. U. S. Ambassador Woods confirmed the report that Japan's silk industry was not seriously affected. The silk filatures were practically uninjured, and the area of production escaped altogether, although 42,000 bales of silk were destroyed in Yokohama...
...Service, the other great contestant in the Pulitzer Trophy race at St. Louis next month, is not dicouraged. It has up its sleeve the Verville-Sperry monoplane. In this two engines are used, one behind the other, so that there is an enormous increase in power; but the area of the airplane body is no bigger than in the single-engined machines and the air resistance is therefore no greater...
Although the silk-producing area of Japan was for the most part out of the zone devastated by the earthquake, about 25% of the silk-reeling plants of the country were reported as ruined, along with large stocks of silk burned in Tokyo and Yokohama. The industry in consequence faces a shortage of the raw material, accompanied ly uncertain prices on high levels...