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Before the telegraph was perfected, the pigeon post enjoyed a great vogue among stockbrokers. It was used by news agencies to report yacht races before the invention of wireless. Its military use is today largely confined to fortress warfare, large flocks being maintained at the inland strongholds of Germany, France, Russia. Of late in the U. S., the military importance of pigeons has been recognized because of the ease with which telegraph and wireless facilities can be interrupted in modern warfare...
...raises horses, 9,000 volumes of Americana, is board chairman of American Shipbuilding, a director of Goodyear Tire & Rubber and vice president of the Cleveland Baseball Club (Indians). He also sits on the boards of 16 Van Sweringen railroads, though he was President Wilson's Wartime Director of Inland Waterways...
...Home Fleet handily at its present bases in the North Sea and the English Channel. Admiralty experts advised His Majesty's Government to remove the Home Fleet to the extreme southern tip of Wales where Milford Haven affords the refuge of a strongly fortified harbor extending some ten miles inland. Forehanded as usual, the Admiralty announced that it has already bought lands at Milford Haven and is ready to launch a $2,000,000 program for making it a super-safe naval nest equipped with every means of repelling bombers...
...Luce picked hops together, quarreled, outwitted mean-spirited settlers, camped together in a cabin on the desolate coast. Clay lied about the circumstances that had made him a fugitive; Luce would not disclose some dark secret that burdened her life. When the settlers left the coast to trek inland again. Wade Shiveley bobbed up in the wagon train. Clay killed another boy while trying to kill Wade, then accused Wade of the killing. Almost exposed, he assisted at Wade's lynching. Luce had a miscarriage. Leaving her with her horse-trading father. Clay rode on alone...
Hard on the heels of the dividend announcement came another. By approval of the two boards of directors Inland was merged with 93-year-old Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, independent steel and iron company, with Ryerson in the status of a wholly owned subsidiary. With this addition Inland moves up to seventh rank among the nation's steel companies, with a capitalization of $116,000,000. Fifty-nine shares of Inland stock will be issued for each 100 shares of Ryerson turned...