Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when he unexpectedly proclaimed an interpretation of his anti-motor vehicle edict which the laziest of campus sag-spines had to admit partook of Solomonic cunning. "We have so many machines on the ground," Dean Gauss began blandly, "that we do not bother particularly about those up in the air, as a fleet of pursuit planes would be needed for effective control. . . . Anyone may fly over Princeton-but if he lands here, and runs along the ground, we shall class his plane as a motor vehicle and return him and it to his parents...
...device for receiving pictures sent by radio enlarges them to nine times their original size. Last week, in Manhattan, this device was successfully demonstrated by engineers of the Radio Corp. of America. Its basis is paper so sensitized that hot air will turn it black. A blast of hot air plays through a fine jet on the paper at the receiving end. A jet of cold air controlled by radio signals transmitting the desired picture by the usual radiograph process, modulates the hot air, producing the shading in the received picture. The advantage of magnifying photographs sent by radio: when...
Five thousand terror-gripped onlookers watched airmen rush into the air with seven planes to warn Chamberlin. Flying beside him, they held out wheels to signal his trouble. For 50 minutes the Levines, horrified, watched the plane circle hopelessly about, followed by an ambulance ready to pick up the bodies. They saw Carisi climb over the edge, struggle vainly, hanging head down, to fix the buckled wheel. Pilot Chamberlin. wrapped the children in blankets to save the shock of a crash. Then he slowly swooped down, ten feet from the ground flattened into a pancake stall, 'tail downwards...
Married. Elizabeth Frances du Pont, 21, daughter of Philip F. du Pont (retired executive of the E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.); to Richard Dorsey Morgan, 22, office manager of the Bell Telephone Co.'s Philadelphia branch; at Bel Air, Md., after eloping...
Died. William Goodman, 52, inventor-engineer, Vice President of the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp.; in Manhattan, after a mastoid operation. The double-action Diesel engine which the U. S. Shipping Board has lately adopted as standard equipment for many of its ships, and the feather valve air compressor, were developed under his supervision...