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...thousand tons of paper . . . whirling through great power presses . . . using 750 Ib. of ink an hour. More than a thousand printers . . . working night and day. Machines with great mechanical fingers sorting, gathering and binding pages into books. Four hundred artists and camera men making thousands of illustrations. . . . A great battery of 200 typewriters clicking out the true story of value you read on these pages...
...equipment to be used in this course is now on its way from Texas and three of the special compound lens to be used in the aerial camera have already been received...
According to Mrs. Cockburn-Lange the pictures were taken by her late husband with a camera mounted in the cockpit of his plane and operated by a shutter attached to the machine-gun trigger. She has refused to tell her husband's name because, she says, his superior officer is still in the R. F. C. and might be punished for permitting the pictures to be taken "against army regulations...
...photographer's identity. Arguments summarized by Editor Grey: ¶ No British pilot is known to have made enough patrol flights to account for so many pictures. The 60 perfect pictures were said to be the fruit of "several hundred" exposures. The photographer, unable to reload his camera in the air, could make only one exposure per flight. ¶ No pilot has been heard from who saw so many astonishing sights in the air as this man's camera, pointed at random, caught perfectly. (The camera was supposed to be pointing not always parallel to the machine gun; sometimes...
...pilot took pictures consistently with a 5"x4" camera of 16 in. focal length (such as this camera was supposed to be) he could hardly keep it a secret from the entire...