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Show U. S. BUYS "BLIMP" OF ITALY , Pays $200,000 for Roma, La roe it Semi Rigid Aircraft In tho World. Washington. Purchase of the Itnl- 5 Inn "hllmp" nlrshlp Itomn, bcllcicd to , - ie the largest semi-rigid aircraft iu ' the world, for approximately FJOU.OOO, was announced by thti War depart- ment. It probably would cost SlJSO.OOO to duplicate tho ship, the statement said. The Itoinu Ii of 1,'JX),000 cubic feet capacity, 41(1 feet long, 82 feet wide nnd 88 feet high, and equipped with six l'J-cyllnder engines of 'KX) horsepower horse-power each. It had un estimated .speed if GO mites an hour nnd n cruising rn-' rn-' dlus nt full speed of .'WOO miles and nt cruising speed of 8,XXI miles. . jm, MaJ. John (1. Tliornhlll has been or-' or-' fw , lercd to Italy with un air service de-lachmenl de-lachmenl to bring the Konm to America. |