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Soldiers & sailors take an oath to defend the best interests of their country, come what may, but Chilean sailors, members of the second greatest fleet in South America, do not care. Early last week rumor ran through the battle fleet at Coquimbo that the Provisional Government of President Manuel Trucco (third since the flight of Dictator Ibanez), was preparing to cut the pay of all noncommissioned ratings as an economy move. Overnight mutiny flared...
...statement of the comparison of numbers to which you refer will be found in the Historical Section in the catalog, copy of which 1 am forwarding, on p. 18. This statement reads as follows: "Colonel Fleet continued as Superintendent of the institution for fourteen years, the school under his direction growing steadily in size, and perfecting its methods and equipment. In the course oj twelve years, from a corps of thirty cadets, quartered in a frame building, and scarcely known within its own State, the Academy grew to an enrollment, including its winter and summer sessions, of 677 cadets, over...
...governmental activities which, as "private business," the F. of A. B. would have to abolish: printing by one of the biggest plants in the U. S.; ship-building at Navy yards; operation of the Alaskan Railroad by the Department of the Interior; the U. S. Shipping Board's fleet;* helium production for the Navy by the Bureau of Mines; Post Office banking in the form of postal savings accounts; lumbering in national forests by the Department of Agriculture; real estate sales by the General Land Office. Private educators could ask to have Howard University (Negro) in Washington...
...distance swimmer: the annual women's ten-mile marathon on Lake Ontario, near Toronto, which she won for the first time a year ago. Her mother, watching the race from shore, was congratulated on her daughter's ability by a famed seagoing spectator, British Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe...
Less precarious but equally amazing were the feats of a fleet of autogyros, flying in formation for the first time on record. Piloted by Amelia Earhart Putnam, Louis A. Yancey and others, the "windmills" flopped vertically into the air, aided by a 30-m. p. h. wind, and descended the same way. The first day's program completed, the flyers settled down to ten days of racing and stunting which were to be climaxed by the Thompson Trophy Race, prime speed test for U. S. planes...