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When U. S. railroads load more than 1,000,000 cars of freight in one week, as the American Railway Association reported last week for the fourth time this year, that means that commodities are moving, that business is good. The continuing bituminous (soft) coal strike and the Mississippi river basin flood have prevented more than four 1,000,000-car weeks this year...
...Start. Dropping its landing gear to lessen its load, the White Bird skirted the southern coasts of England and Ireland, pointed its nose toward Newfoundland. It had no wireless. It was flying north of the usual steamship lanes. An angry wind from the west was beating in its face, slowing its speed. Expecting to reach New York in 35 hours, it carried only enough gasoline for 40 hours flying...
Imagine a gigantic yellow bird, with wingspread of 67 feet, weighing some 6,000 pounds, carrying an additional load of 11,000 pounds. Imagine that bird losing necessary flying speed a few feet above the ground, trying to land in a marsh at 70 miles per hour. In such a bird, last week, were Lieut. Commander Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster, crack flyers of the U. S. Navy. They were making their last test flight in the trimotored American Legion, preparatory to attempting a non-stop jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline...
...Dornier Superwal model, with two Rolls-Royce-Conder motors, takes 21 passengers, crew of four. In tests it lifted 60 persons, a freight load greater than the ship's weight when empty...
...atrocious that an able-bodied boy should ride and let an old man walk. So the old man was ensconced on the beast with the boy. A short distance further on a passerby said quite indignantly that it was cruel for the poor animal to have such a load. So the man and the boy got down and carried the donkey, and as they were crossing a stream, they lost balance and all fell in and were drowned...