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...Three miles from Akron is Wingfoot Lake, home base of Goodyear's fleet of baby blimps. There last week a silver bubble floated in the sky. small enough to be an egg of the mammoth Macon, yet bigger than any nonrigid airship heretofore built in the U. S. The bubble was the TC-13, just built by Goodyear for the Army, and being test-flown prior to her maiden flight to her station at Langley Field. Va. The TC-13 is 200 ft. long. Beneath her belly she carries a 40-ft. control car equipped with four folding bunks...
...year on roads, harbors, bridges, slum clearance, etc. etc. and another faction that wanted to spend less than $1,000,000,000 for the same purposes. ¶ On June 3, 1898 Richmond Pearson Hobson won the nation's applause by sinking the Merrimac to bottle up the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. Last week President Roosevelt pinned a Congressional Medal of Honor on the Hobson breast for that feat. Mr. Hobson is nowadays a famed anti-narcotics crusader (TIME, March 2, 1931). ¶ Long and loyal service was rewarded last week when President Roosevelt appointed...
...read an advertisement for competitive examinations to Annapolis. He frankly admits that he took the tests "just for an excuse to go to Santa Rosa," was surprised when he won the appointment. At the Naval Academy he played baseball, football. Graduated in 1895, he was assigned to the Asiatic Fleet. During the Philippine insurrection he distinguished himself by going ashore in the dead of night, wading through a swamp and making a sketch from a tree of an enemy camp. After Manila he spent some time in Central America "watching revolutions. ' During the War he trained officers at Annapolis...
...Last week Homestake stock passed 200- only stock quoted at that figure on the New York Exchange in more than a year. * His militant peak, however, was when he ordered his London man to sink a steamer in the Suez Canal to keep the Spanish fleet fr.om going after Admiral Dewey at Manila...
...river. The fishermen gave the President a 50-lb. halibut. "Just about enough to feed my family," chuckled Mr. Roosevelt, before cracking the old joke about the young bride who ordered six halibut for dinner. The Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Navy remembered well how one of the fleet's schooners had been sunk by German submarines...