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...this load, or in subsequent ones, were 400 letters which Captain Wilkins contracted to carry over the Pole and mail in Spitzbergen, for $10 a letter. A New Jersey philatelist hopes to sell them to his customers for $12.50 each. Similarly. Lieutenant Commander Byrd is taking U. S. flags on his trip for societies wishing to possess flags that have been to the North Pole...
...future supply organization must be so built that, like a rubber band, it can in a moment be stretched to a hundred times its size without breaking under the strain. It must be just as effective in the new shape as in the old, and must carry a heavier load at every point. It must be kept alive in times of peace, so that it may not succumb to dry-rot. Incidentally, it has had a very active life in the past few years, trying to stretch itself to cover the many new army activities born since the Great...
...This conclusion is based on the facts as they now are. No airplane capable of making a transoceanic flight to our country with a useful military load and of returning to safety is now in existence...
...Commander Rodgers, in command of the PN9 on the recent flight to Hawaii, states that there is no airplane in existence which would be able to come to this country across either ocean carrying a heavy military load, nor is the construction of one to be expected with known materials and known motive powers. Commander Towers, one of the oldest flyers in the Navy, who participated in the flight in 1919 from Newfoundland to the Azores, expresses the opinion that for either of our coasts to be bombarded from overseas would involve transporting airplanes by surface craft across the ocean...
...WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF-Reviewed in this issue...