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...from Germany under an Allied agreement specifying that it be used only for training and experimental purposes, never for war. But the plane-hooking experiment furnished knowledge of speeds, stresses, handling, valuable in the fabrication of the Navy's two huge dirigibles, twice the size of the Los Angeles, by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Co. at Akron, Ohio. The new ships will have built-in hangars in which to store and carry planes...
...were ever so eagerly received by bank tellers. All the boxes contained money-crisp new paper currency which the U. S. had, over a two-year period, manufactured to substitute for the bills now in circulation. For the first time in 66 years the U. S. was changing the size of its currency, simultaneously simplifying and standardizing the design. The new money became legal tender July...
...five types of currency (U. S. notes, gold certificates, silver certificates, Federal Reserve notes, national bank notes) are maintained. But the new bills (6 5/16 X 2 11/16 in.) are about two-thirds the size of the old (7 7/16 X 3⅛ in.). With between four and five billion dollars of currency in circulation, the Treasury had prepared $3,640,000,000-about $30 per U. S. capita- in new bills...
...size will be 8¾ in. by 11? in. (approximately the same size as TIME) ; its cost: 15 cents an issue, $5 a year. Circulation at the outset, its publishers promise, will...
Devotees of Just So Stories are familiar with Yellow-Dog Dingo and his fabled speed. The dingo or warrigal (Canis dingo) is a stocky sand-colored wild dog, in size half way between a jackal and a wolf. Peculiar to Australia, so ancient is the dingo breed that its fossilized bones are found intermingled with those of the extinct giant kangaroo and giant wombat. Bitter are the scientific disputes whether the dingo is really indigenous to Australia or whether it was brought there by prehistoric man from Malaya. More important than academic wrangles is the problem of recently imported Alsatian...