This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...authority or prohibiting traflfic of this sort with European nations. although in the case of neighboring American Republics Congress has given the President power to proclaim an embargo on arms and ammunition when in his judgment it would tend to prevent civil strife. For the Government of the United States itself to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...authority or prohibiting traflfic of this sort with European nations. although in the case of neighboring American Republics Congress has given the President power to proclaim an embargo on arms and ammunition when in his judgment it would tend to prevent civil strife. For the Government of the United States itself to sell to a belligerent nation would be an unneutral act. but for a private individual to sell to a belligerent any product of the United States is neither unlawful nor unneutral, nor within the power of the Executive to prevent or control. The foregoing remarks, however, do not apply to the outfitting or furnishing of vessels in American ports or of military expeditions on American soil in aid of a belligerent. These acts are prohibited hy the neutrality laws of the United States... 5 DATA SHEET OF AMERICA 29 West 39th Street. New York OFFICIAL BULLETIN It is noted with respectful and deep regret that Mr. Lee S. Burridge, Founder and Ifast President of the Society, has through sickness been absent from the meetings the last known as the Two-Foot Constant "K" or Vortex effect, which dominates when peripheral speed of a propeller is approximately 1,100 feet per second. I-le also indicated a method for readily determining the efiiciency of a propeller. Mr. Charles B. Brewer exhibited an elec trically treated cloth, under a process invented by Mr, A. W. Carroll, which is impervious to water while being permeable by air. This, it is thought. may prove of value in the manufacture of dirigibles, because less than one per cent. of weight is added to the material in the process of treatment. M'r. I'. A. Peterson exhibited a large variety of insects, having weights attached which they had carried in ight, proving that. as a general rule, ...
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