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With half a ton of freight born aloft by its metal wings, the Maiden Dearborn, fledgling of Henry Ford's fleet of aeroplanes, made her first voyage. Rising from the ground at Dearborn, Mich., she flew, in a morning, to Chicago, unloaded and reloaded and returned to the Ford airport at Dearborn the same afternoon. Henry and Edsel Ford witnessed the plane's departure. Mrs. Henry Ford was on hand to stow the first parcel of freight in the plane. "Ultimately," said Edsel Ford, "we hope to link our plants at Chicago, at St. Louis, at St. Paul...
...Congress has decreed that they can be sold only to a U. S. company because Congress wants a U. S. merchant fleet. To the Shipping Board is left the choice of selling at ridiculously low bids or not selling...
...Emergency Fleet Corporation, in charge of Rear Admiral Palmer, is nominally divorced from the Shipping Board (TIME, Jan. 14, 1924; Jan. 5). The Shipping Board is a supervisory body, over the Emergency Fleet Corporation, an operating company...
...Standard Oil of Indiana thus becomes not only one of the largest oil companies in the domestic field, to which it had previously been confined, but also in foreign markets. It acquires important Mexican producing properties, as well as pipe lines, refineries, and a tanker fleet second only in size to that operated by the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey...
Shortly the unfortunate car owners discovered that their entire fleet had been spirited away like Aladdin's famous castle. They searched and searched, and at last found the garage man and paid him storage. A few, not realizing the colossal sense of humor of the Police Department, are still looking for them. Some of the more literal minded son's went so far as to ask the police to justify their joke. They should have caught the spirit of the thing and remembered that there is always a clause which can be stretched to cover any case. Of course their...