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...seven Capitals we own our Embassies: London, Paris, Constantinople, Havana, Mexico City, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro. In eight capitals, we now own our Legations* ? Prague, Christiania, Tangier, Bangkok (Siam), Peking, Panama, San Jose (Costa Rica), San Salvador. We own our Consulates at Shanghai, Amoy (Southern China), Seoul (Korea), Tahiti...
...first nine months of this year, they flew 1,492,167 mi. and had only one fatal accident. They started night-flying July 1 and, between this date and Sept. 30, flew by night without a fatal accident. They are making their flights and deliveries between Manhattan and San Francisco on a 31-hour schedule with absolute regularity in all weathers...
...Incidentally, this is the greatest range ever embodied in any airplane. True, Macready and Kelly flew 2,600 mi. non-stop across the Continent and still had gas to spare in their Fokker monoplane. But their ship was stripped bare. The new seaplane, when making a single hop from San Diego to Honolulu, will carry not just gas, but a full crew of five men and powerful fighting and bombing equipment...
...same disease. The bubonic germ is a surly one that lives in slatternly wild creatures, insects, rodents and in the filthy shambles of great cities. In those places where nature fights civilization and both lose, the plague waits, curling its haunches. From China, in 1900, it came first to San Francisco; since then from Mexico, riding on fleas that ride on Mexicans that ride on burros...
...went forth-three one way, three the other. Three left New Jersey in the evening. They were at San Fran- cisco at sunset; in Honolulu in the afternoon; in Malabar (Java) in the morning; in London mist in the wee, small hours; back on Long Island in the evening. The other three left Massachusetts at the same time their fellows set out. They were in Paris in the wee, small hours; in Saigon (French Indo-China) in the morning;" in San Francisco at sunset; and also at Long Island in the evening. The evening of departure and arrival...