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...metal monoplane with three Wright-Whirlwind motors. It can carry a ton of freight, operating at a cost of 13.8 cents a mile. Its cruising radius is 2,500 miles. New, it costs the purchaser $37,000. It is planned to build 100 of these planes forthwith. After these are sold the price may drop to $28,000. Eventually, "we hope to put a machine in the air that will be as comparably cheap as our pleasure cars." It is to Henry Ford-and his son-that the U. S. has been looking for its first swarming fleets of aircraft...
Before bluff, hearty Countryman King resigned as Premier, he sought Lord Byng and advised the dissolution of Parliament, which would have caused the election to be held under Liberal auspices. The Governor General refused somewhat peremptorily to order dissolution and Premier King resigned forthwith. On the contrary, when suave, aristocratic, moneyed Premier Meighen approached Baron Byng with a request for dissolution last week it was granted instanter -thereby putting the electoral machinery in the hands of Conservatives. Though Lord Byng acted within his legal rights, custom virtually obligated him to follow the original "advice" of Premier King. Unquestionably the efforts...
When the elder J. P. Morgan created the U. S. Steel Corp., he sent blocks of the new stock to his clients with a demand for their checks forthwith. They complied. J. P. Morgan clients do not refuse J. P. Morgan offerings...
...Premiers sat down to deliberate these issues a telegram was handed to Czechoslovak Benes. It contained an order from the chiefs of his party (Czech National Socialist) that he assist it in an attack upon certain grain tariff laws dear to the Czechoslovak Cabinet by resigning his Foreign Ministry forthwith. The Little Entente Conference broke up ere it began, as its dominant figure (Benes) hastened to Prague...
...Forthwith, the British Foreign Office issued an announcement: the President of France had postponed his visit because of the political crisis at Paris. Simultaneously all semi-official French news organs carried a statement: the President of France had postponed his visit because of the British Coal Strike...