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Air-ship Budgets of the Nations

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 30, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 25.

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Air-ship Budgets of the Nations.

—A note addressed to Parliament by the British War Office contains a comparative statement of the sums expended in 1908 by the governments of the principal nations of Europe in the construction of air-ships and in experimental work in aerial navigation. In American money the amounts approximate the following sums: Germany, $1,900,000; France, $225,000; Austria-Hungary, $26,000; and Great Britain, $25,000.