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...interest to the public. Using Mitchel Field, N. Y., Concord, N. H. and Burlington, Vt. as bases, 62 pursuit, attack and bombing planes carrying 216 men, began chasing back & forth over snowy hills to test equipment and find out, among other things, if machine-gun oil will lubricate at sub-zero temperatures. What made last week's war game newsworthy was the presence of the world's first Flying Flagship. A twin-motored Douglas DC2 transport, it is the first of three ordered by the Air Force at $85,000 apiece. Under the direction of Major General Frank...
...Virginia Weidler. Both of the children did well although they were made to cry too much. Their part of the story, unfortunately was telescoped to such an extent that the importance of the childhood relation which is so carefully established by du Maurois is largely lost and the explaining sub-title is entirely stupid in calling Gogo's life "foreshadowed" without showing...
...when one arrives at the age and maturity of a college undergraduate there should be no childish measures to force compliance to all sorts of rules and minimum requirements and regulations limiting to freedom. A great part of the education of every student, and this of course includes your sub marginal group who could not "live up to the standards and responsibilities of the Tutorial System," is the training he gets in being on his own responsibility, in the kind of self-discipline he will have to have in after-life, and which you limit only to the tutorial students...
...message, read by Japanese with absolute fury last week, was a British proposal to President Harding and Secretary of State Hughes for Anglo-U. S. naval parity. The Japanese Government had relied on Great Britain, as their Wartime ally, not to make any sub rosa deal with the U. S., and Washington's great Naval Conference was not yet thought of. Japanese editors last week filled their papers with wrathful recollections of how. after the Washington Conference opened in November 1921, the British delegation professed to be "surprised" when Secretary of State Hughes proposed what afterward was adopted...
...Preparations for fat year-end business supplements often begin two months in advance, though small news papers may buy a canned review in mat form from United Press for $3. Except for a few charts and tables, however, most of the space-filling articles are contributed free by tycoons, sub-tycoons and assistant sub-tycoons. Most of their stuff is "ghosted" by hirelings. The week of business reviews is the one time in the year when a businessman can be sure that his sound-off will not be cut. For pressagents it is the week of business weeks...