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...Richmond sighted two specks and ordered his ship to belch black smoke as a guiding signal. As the planes flew overhead and down to the beflagged moorings in Ice Tickle, the Richmond's siren shrieked a welcome. On a cliff overlooking the mooring place was fixed a brass plate, made on the Richmond, already engraved: "American aviators completed world flight, Aug. 31, 1924." The trip was not "complete," having started from Santa Monica, Cal. But the fliers were back in North American waters, 5 months and 14 days after leaving them...
...radio whenever atmospheric conditions are such that steadiness of transmission and freedom from interference can be assured. This, they declare, has been fully demonstrated. The Belin machine, however, differs from the Tel. & Tel. machine. The original record from which Belin transmits his pictures must be etched upon a brass cylinder. The Telephone Company's process sends from ordinary photographic films and produces a similar film at the receiving end. A comparison of the merits of the French and American methods is impossible, since neither has yet had extensive public...
Strewn along the banks and across the bridges were the assembled multitudes-old Yale and Harvard graduates, young graduates, undergraduates, pretty girls wearing the colors of their favorites, all with lusty voices. Somewhere a big brass band was crashing out Boola Boola. Somewhere else a great shout went up. The race had begun...
...articles shown include silk embroideries, silver engraved pieces, solid silver slippers, gold slippers, ivory pieces, wooden boxes is laid with ivory and brass, and vocal carvings of every description...
...benefit of seniors interested in that business. As the advisory season is now on, I write to say that it should have been an apology. Those interested should by all means before committing themselves glance at the other side of the picture as exhibited in Upton Sinclair's "Brass Check". Sinclair's picture is just as exaggerated as the A. P. man's, but I know from experience that it's just as true...