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...past year, said Secretary Young, transport planes flew 40,080,000 miles, carried 418,000 passengers, 9,100,000 Ib. of mail, 3,250,000 Ib. of express. Forty-four companies, operating 125 routes, fly 650 aircraft valued at $14,000,000. In miscellaneous (other than transport) operations, 2,200,000 persons flew during the year...
...Kelly Field and Fort Crockett in Texas, from Crissy and Rockwell Fields in California, from all over the country. When the armada assembled at Wright and Fairfield Fields in Dayton, it became a dire aerial weapon capable of firing 2,000,000 shots a minute or loosing 100,000 Ib. of bombs. Its title: The First Provisional Air Division...
...Current market price: 4.sc per Ib. Full grown rabbits average 3 Ib...
...racing is different from football; the whole thing depends on your engine more than yourself. No use fooling with your gas on a race as long as this; leaded or etherized gas has speed but lacks power, and Woodworth needed power to make the light boat carry his 200 Ib. No use fooling with imported spark plugs; good though they are for sprints, they seldom last more than one heat. Everything depended on the balance between the Miss Northwestern and her capital Evinrude motor; the way the gas tanks and extra feed lines were placed...
...bowmen: Captain Cassius Styles who every year kills mountain lions and cuts yew in Oregon; the late Dr. Saxton Pope who killed African lions, mountain lions, brown and grizzly bears; Arthur H. Young who one moonlit African night buried a shaft feather-deep in the heart of a 600 Ib. lion which died in 20 seconds...