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Show FIVE THOUSAND AEROPLANES EMPLOYED !N THE WAR I low many aeroplanes are required by all the armies In the present war no one can tell. Three yonrs ago Germany appropriated $ar,000,000 to be s cut In five years on aeronautics. Tho budgets of her rivals wero not much less. There nro certainly no fewer than .1000 machines in actual use In the war. and such Is the wastage wast-age of battle that their Qlng lire Is not longer than two weeks. Very few aeroplanes are now In service which were flying at tho outbreak out-break or war. For all wo know It may be necessary to build CO.OOO machines ma-chines a year to repair tho ravages or war. No wonder that tho Iloyo', Aircraft factory nlono employs T000 men and that there aro 10,000 mechanics mech-anics nnd engineers engaged In malting malt-ing aeroplanes nnd motors In Klin-land Klin-land nlone; no wonder that tho aero-piano aero-piano Industry Is feverishly nctivo and prosperous nil ovor tho world; no wonder that the ncroplano boom or 1913 has been completely eclipsod by tho war prosperity or 1015 and 1016. American Rovlew of Reviews. m m r |