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Show "NAUTICAL .NOVELTIES' Are you Informed of the fact tbut: In 1007, during the voyage of the fleet around the world, music was broadcast for the first time? Radio operators on board the battleships placed phonographs In front of their microphones and were able to broadcast to other vessels In their squadrons, to commercial ships at sea, and to shore stations? The first steamship to cross the Atlantic was built In America? This was the side wheeler Savannah, a vesel of 320 tons, which left Savannah Savan-nah and 25 days later appeared In the harbor of Liverpool. The pay of an enlisted man in the V. 8. Navy Is auomatlcally Increased Increas-ed by about 70 percent after he has been In the Service four months? 103 airplanes of various types can be launched from the D. S. S. Saratoga, one of our largest airplane air-plane carriers, in the remarkable time of 14 minutes? The U. 8. Nary leads the world In Naval Aviation. Regular nightly programs of the latest ' and best motion pictures, when conditions permit, are held aboard ship and so even at sea they have as fine entertainment as is available ashore? The President of the United Stutes Is Commander in Chief of both the Army and the Navy? Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh was the C7ih man to make a non-stop flight over the Atlantic Ocean? Sir John Aicock and Sir A. Whltton Brown made the first non-stop flight over, the Atlantic In 1019? This was followed by 31 men In the English dirigible R-34, and in 1924 the German ZR-3 (now the Los Angeles) flew over from Germany to Lakeliurst, N. J., with a crew of XI men altoard. Thus Lindbergh is- the 67th. |