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According to its own official statement, so late as the 1st of October last, nineteen months after the banking privileges given by the charter had expired, it had under its control uncanceled notes of the late Bank of the United States to the amount of $27,561,866, of which $6,175,861 were in actual circulation, $ 1,468,627 at State bank agencies, and $3,002,390 in transitu, thus showing that upward of ten millions and a half of the notes of the old bank were then still kept outstanding.
The fact that in October, 1918, the Royal Air Force had 22,171 machines and 37,702 engines on charge, and that during the ten months January to October the output of machines had been 26,685 and of engines 29,561, gives some idea of the enormous growth in production. In the first few months of the war it was not possible to progress far with new inventions or improvements.
561 The Dark Sons of Ireland; or, Plotting Under the Shannon Water. By Allan Arnold. 562 Young Karl Kruger; or, The Richest Boy in the Transvaal. By Berton Bertrew. 563 The Phantom Fireman; or, The Mystery of Mark Howland's Life. By Ex-Fire-Chief Warden. 564 Ben Brevier; or, The Romance of a Young Printer. By Allyn Draper. 565 The Signal Service Boys; or, Fighting Above the Clouds. By Gen'l Jas.
A. The thickness of the web of the crank, supposing it to be continued to the centre of the shaft, would at that point be represented by the following rule: to 1.561 times the square of the length of the crank in inches, add 0.00494 times the square of the diameter of the cylinder in inches, multiplied by the pressure on the piston in lbs. per square inch; extract the square root of the sum, which multiply by the diameter of the cylinder squared in inches, and by the pressure on the piston in lbs. per square inch; divide the product by 9,000, and extract the cube root of the quotient, which will be the proper thickness of the web of the crank when of malleable iron, supposing the web to be continued to the centre of the shaft.
Cautionary day and night signals are displayed at the principal ports and harbors when dangerous winds or storms are anticipated. In one year 762 of these warning signals were displayed, and 561 were verified by storms of destructive winds which otherwise would not have been foreseen.
The Philosophers of the nineteenth century have fortunately rediscovered the Mermaid in the north of Scotland! Hitherto, wonderful things used to be confined to barbarous regions and ignorant ages. Arist. de Mirand. Strabo, I. 2. p. 68. Plin. I. 6. c. 29. Strabo, I. 17. p. 560, 561. Strab. I. 17. p. 549. Plin. I. 6. c. 23. Id. I. 12. c. 18. Id. I. 2. c. 67. Ziphilin. in vit. Traj.
Born in the year 561 A.D., of a recently widowed mother, he appears to have been from the first a victim of epilepsy, or some kindred affection whose paroxysms had much to do with his subsequent experiences and his success. The various tribes of Arabia were mostly given to a form of polytheistic idolatry in which, however, the conception of a monotheistic supremacy was still recognized.
Moreover, the colleges of curule aediles were composed exclusively of patricians in the odd years of the Varronian reckoning, at least down to the close of the sixth century, and they are known for the sixteen years 541, 545, 547, 549, 551, 553, 555, 557, 561, 565, 567, 575, 585, 589, 591, 593. These patrician consuls and aediles are, as respects their -gentes-, distributed as follows:
Finally, in 1814, Congress passed an indemnification act, under which the eminent Bostonians, after ten years more lobbying, succeeded in getting an award from the United States Treasury of $1,077,561.73. No. 14, and Senate Documents, Twenty-fourth Congress, 1836-37, Vol. ii, No. 212.
Essex, impatient for military fame, was extremely uneasy to lie some time at Dieppe unemployed; and had not the orders which he received from his mistress been so positive, he would gladly have accepted of Henry's invitation, and have marched to join the French army now in Champagne. * Camden, p. 561. Rymer, vol. xiv. p. 116. * Birch's Negotiations, p. 5. Rymer, tom. xiv. p. 123, 140.
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