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Show PLAN AERIAL SQUADRON. Twenty Machines to Be Purchased at Once for Army. Washington. Plans' for an aerial military squadron will be presented to congress, the number of the air machines to be provided being left by the war department to the law makers. mak-ers. This was announced on Monday by Major General Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the army. Brigadier General Charles Allen, chief of the signal corps, in his report to General Wood, .already has recommended that twenty machines be purchased at once for the army. The necessity for more heavier-than-air machines is held by army authorities au-thorities to be imperative if the United States is to keep abreast of other powers in the science of military mili-tary aviation. |