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Show To Carry 750 Passengers A preview of the flying boat Hercules, now under construction, construc-tion, reveals that it has a wing-spread wing-spread of 320 feet, with capacity to carry 350 patients on stretchers, stretch-ers, with plenty of doctors and nurses and surgical equipment. The ship is being built by Howard Hughes at a cost of $20,- uuu.uuu and win start its test flights next year. If used for carrying troops, the giant will transport 750 men wherever they are going at the rate of nearly two hundred miles an hour. |