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Just as he was preparing to back down a little, news reached Japan that U. S. Brigadier General William Mitchell had said that a fleet of 50 U. S. dirigibles could destroy Japan in two days. Delighted, Japanese army men gravely agreed that it would not take the U. S. fleet even two days, given Japan's present air force. But the Japanese Press played the story down. It was too bold, too frightening...
Last year the club owned a Fairchild 22, open two-seater monoplane with a cruising speed of 95 miles an hour. It is hoped that the club will be able to buy a new plane this year; possible choices are a later model Fairchild, a Fleet trainer, or a Curtiss-Wright Travel Air three-place sport model, with a 165 horsepower motor and a cruising speed of 115 miles an hour...
...beyond that rock few men had ventured, and those who had, dared not to pass in straight defiance of the beetling brow of the noble Cape St. Vincent, so stern a guardian of the continent. But through the rock, and beyond that cape, men knew as Vincent, sailed the fleet. Beyond, lay they know not what. To sail their vessels they had men who were not sailors, to cheer their thoughts they had facts which were but legend, but to guide their steps they had the courage of the man Columbus...
...activity was intense. Men, who by their very dress, proved themselves to be no native mariners, were making ready for the departure of the craft. Another weighted donkey drew up, discharged his cargo, departed. The group about the shore increased as word about the town had spread that the fleet was in readiness to sail...
...America's Cup with Valkyrie III, he first charged that the owners of the defending yacht Defender had had ballast secretly and unfairly added at night, then that she had fouled Valkyrie at the start of the second race, and that the crowding of the spectator fleet endangered him. After crossing the line at the start of the third race, he withdrew unexpectedly and forfeited the series. After a celebrated "trial," in which Lord Dunraven failed to prove his charges, he was expelled from honorary membership in the New York Yacht Club for conduct unbecoming a gentleman...