OCR Text |
Show CONTRACTS LET FOR HYDRO-AEROPLANES WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Contracts for ninety-six high-power hydroaeroplanes hydroaero-planes for the coast artillery stations in the United States, Hawaii, Philippines Philip-pines and the Panama canal zone were let today by the war department. Immediate construction is to be begun on the ninety-six machines ami contracts con-tracts soon will be let for fifty-two more. Companies receiving awards were the Aero-Marinc Engineer &, Sales Co., Now York City, sixteen machines, $ IS, 0(10 each; the' Burgess company, Marble-head, Marble-head, Mass., thirty-two machines, $2il,-622 $2il,-622 each; the Curtiss company, Buffalo, Buffa-lo, N. Y., sixteen machines, $22,500 each, and the Standard Aeroplane corporation, cor-poration, Plainfield, N. .)., thirty-two machines, $21,000 each. |