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Last week the Navy's sole surviving dirigible was walked out of her Lakehurst hangar, moored securely to her mobile mast.* Her tail was buckled to a flatcar mounted on a huge circular track, left there to swing with the wind. Decommissioned nearly three years ago, partly dismantled and condemned as unfit for further avigation, the 11-year-old Los Angeles had bein reconditioned not to fly but to determine how she might weather a year's uninterrupted exposure to the elements...
...company of sourdoughs to France in the War, has represented the north country in the House since 1921. His constituency embraces 207,000 sq. mi., has 4,000 residents. Two of his ribs were broken when he rolled down a mountainside in the Rockies under a gasoline flatcar. He once traveled 2,000 miles to defend Mark Zarkovitch, former private in his company, accused of killing a man in a knife fight in Jasper National Park. The Speaker of Canada's House looked at the rabbits, pulled a .22 calibre target pistol from his desk, stalked them cannily...
...millimeter G. P. Filloux rifle of French type has been received by the Department of Military Science and Tactics from the proving grounds at Aberdeen, Maryland. The gun and carriage, which together weigh about twenty-five thousand pounds, were shipped by flatcar, and were unloaded and hauled to the University by one of the Holt tractors which are part of the equipment here...