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...decided that the fairest match for the 8,500-ton Mogamis will be the U. S. 10,000-ton cruisers of the Brooklyn class, described them as "the most interesting cruisers yet built." Gravely twitting Japanese naval architects for their penchant for piling heavier & heavier masts and fire control gear into existing war craft. Dr. Parkes notes that battleships of the Mutsii class have now been equipped with foremasts so thick that they accommodate an electric elevator running clear up to the masthead. "This mast is claimed to be almost indestructible by shell fire," notes Dr. Parkes, slyly adding...
...view of old Egypt with Egyptian dancing girls thinly veiled, going through rhythmic motions." The carpet was oriental, the interior fittings silver and ivory. Reporter De Long subsequently learned more facts about the limousine. It was a bullet-proof Maybach-Zeppelin. 22 ft. long, weighing four tons. with 12-gear shift and capable of 100 m.p.h. Its cost: $52.000. "Whose is it?'' he asked inside the hotel, and was given a card: E. VIRGIL NEAL...
...railroad bridge on the line into Sioux City. Other picketers burned a bridge over near Portsmouth, Iowa. Elsewhere in Iowa and in Wisconsin and Minnesota there was violence last week. But it was fitful, sporadic violence. Milo Reno's great Corn Belt uprising was not rising "in full gear" as he had urged. Checks from the Agriculture Adjustment Administration were descending on the land in a gentle, pervasive rain, damping the prairie fire of farmers' anger. Hers and there law-abiding, patient farmers organized vigilance corps to deal with agitators.*The Corn Belt was quiet as into...
Seeking Divorce. Luella Gear Heckscher, musicomedienne (Gay Divorce); from G. Maurice Heckscher, Manhattan realtor, son of Philanthropist August Heckscher. Charge: mental cruelty...
...speed is specified at 180 m. p. h., about 40 m. p. h. better than the fastest commercial amphibion so far. To speed it up that much, Fairchild's Designer Albert Gassner (oldtime Fokker engineer) had to devise some radical treatment of the pontoons and landing gear, which are what make most amphibions slow. His solution was to make the wheel and wingtip floats fold into the wing, forming a sleek flying-boat when the ship is in flight. The engine, in a stream lined nacelle, is mounted atop the wing. A new wrinkle in amphibion design...