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...fleet was anchored in Cromarty Firth, a curving 20-mi. arm of the sea bound in by grey Scotch mountains, ready to sail for autumn battle practice in the North Sea. Early in the week the 12,000 sailors of the fleet learned full details of the pay cuts imposed by the Admiralty Board in accordance with the economy plans of the National Government (TIME, Sept. 21). Because the Cabinet had given no instructions how the pay cuts were made but merely told the Admiralty the total amounts to be saved, the fleet heard last week that midshipmen and junior...
...economy. Specially designed Stinson tri-motors requiring only one pilot were bought from Errett Lobban Cord. Automobile gas was used for cruising, until aviation gas prices were forced down to 7½? per gal. Pilots were instructed to taxi on one motor instead of three. . . . Result : Cost per mi. was 37?, while other operators of tri-motors were having difficulty in getting under $1 per mi. At the end of the first year, September 1, Ludington had made 8,300 trips, about 28 per day; carried 66,000 passengers (average load 66%) without injury. In the whole year there...
Ludington Line is something of an annoyance to the Post Office Department with its offers to carry mail for 25? per mi., less than half of what is paid Eastern Air Transport...
...license from the F. A. L, brought the first racing Blériot to the U. S. and began to take one prize after another for first flights in various sections of the East. One prize of $10,000 he won for finishing first in a 186-mi. race from Boston to Nashua, N. H., Worcester, Providence and back to Boston...
...test the circulation winds with a straw. With utmost secrecy a Sunday magazine section was made up, printed in four colors. Very gingerly last week the first issue, called The Graphic Weekly, was sent out with the Sunday Tribune, but only to readers beyond a radius of 100 mi. from Chicago...