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...determine whether this ratio could be applied to smaller ships. No results were obtained. Since 1921 the U. S. has fallen behind the ratio; Japan, with regard to cruisers, has passed it. The U. S. delinquency falls also in the cruiser category, so that the consideration of these swift, flexible ships becomes paramount. When all cruisers authorized and appropriated for have been built, Great Britain will show a cruiser tonnage of 385,790; the U. S. of 155,000; Japan of 215,155. Thus the British-U. S. cruiser ratio will be 13 to 5, the Japan-U. S. ratio...
Assuming that the businessman control idea actually goes into operation, whom might Chicagoans select as leader of the business group? Young as Chicago is, many of its great pioneer families have already passed into their third generations. Among the Swifts, the Armours, the McCormicks. the Potter Palmers, perhaps the most available candidate is Harold Higgins Swift (president of the board of the University of Chicago, director of Chicago's United Charities). Potent, indeed, are Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, heads of the Chicago Tribune. But Mr. McCormick would hardly leave the Tribune to act in an advisory capacity...
...three events, the opening of West Indies air service was the most important. In many respects, it is more important than U. S. continental services. In this country the railroads supply swift transportation. Among the West Indies and in Central America, relatively slow steamers furnish communication...
...Frank Norris, fundamentalist pastor of the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth, Tex., took, last week, a swift automobile ride which ended with a view of his church, Sunday school building and gymnasium?all destroyed by fire...
...composers have yet to make a name for any great profundity. That the herd of them is, however, swift, timely, can scarcely be disputed. News songs now figure prominently in Tin Pan Alley. The most recent tells of the sinking of the Vestris...