Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aeromarine, Klemm, Alliance, American Eagle, Arrow, Bellanca, Berliner-Joyce, Boeing, Cessna, Chance Vought, Command-Aire, Curtiss, Fokker, Great Lakes, Hamilton, Knoll, Lincoln, Mahoney-Ryan, Mohawk, Moth, Parks, Pitcairn, Simplex, Spartan, Stearman, Swallow, Swift, Travel Air, Whittlesey...
...were paid weekly from five to eight pounds apiece ($24-$38), and will receive from His Majesty personally "a substantial gift" according to an announcement last week at Buckingham Palace. About £3,000 ($14,580) was spent to install the special anti-fog machinery which purified the air in George V's bed- room (TIME, Dec. 17), and was considered indispensable in saving his life. To set up a special pharmacy in the Palace and keep it staffed day and night with the most expert drug dispensers cost £3,000, and £9,500 more went...
...With his record hung up, Gar Wood stepped out of his boat, forgot it, and set to work designing another boat to go even faster. His first racer was a panting dinghy that the experimental Gar teased up to eight miles an hour by squirting raw gasoline into the air bell of the motor with an oil can. His latest, before the careening flash of last week, was the beautifully designed Miss America VI that dove in the Detroit River last September at an unofficial speed of 102 m. p. h. In 1912, relaxing from problems of speedboat design...
...hurled as a projectile. There was no time to find out. Back on their farm in north ern Italy after the Armistice, they experimented with six-ton cannon. One day six years ago Ugo crawled into the gun's muzzle. The brother "fired" it, a blast of compressed air plus a puff of gunpowder smoke to make it realistic. Ugo hurtled out and landed, unhurt, in a haystack. Now they have perfected the trick. The "gunner" brother takes care of the mechanism, guards it jealously. At each performance Ugo climbs into the barrel. Much depends on his brother...
Britain's leading theatrical weekly, The Stage, flayed B.B.C., last week, for a new and super-autocratic ruling, that the names of actors and actresses in plays put on the air will no longer be announced. Amazing B.B.C. explanation: Hundreds of listeners have complained that when they hear Actor John Doe in the role of Hamlet, having last seen him perhaps as Sherlock Holmes, their visual memory of a detective in a checked overcoat greatly impairs their ability to obtain over the radio an auditory image of a gloomy Dane addressing the skull of "Poor Yorick." If the actor...