Word: airflow
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...shining stars adorn the family diadem of Walter P. Chrysler. Son-in-law Byron Cecil Foy, who married Mr. Chrysler's eldest daughter Thelma, is, at 40, president of Chrysler-owned De Soto Motor Corp., famed sponsor of its airflow models. Son-in-law Edgar William Garbisch, 32, a burly West Point footballer who married Mr. Chrysler's second daughter Bernice, went to work for J. Stirling Getchell, Inc., Manhattan advertising agency which handles most Chrysler advertising, startled himself and friends by bagging the huge Socony-Vacuum account. Last week Motormaker Chrysler's chunky, art-loving son Walter...
Compressibility burble is a phenomenon which appears at speeds of 500 m.p.h. or higher. Plane speeds have not reached the point where "compressibility burble" has become a practical limiting factor, but propeller tip speeds are near it. "Compressibility burble" is a sharp break away of the airflow from the upper wing surface like the bow-waves of a ship, leaving the air directly behind extremely rarefied...
...only other motormaker with a full line to bring to Manhattan for yearly judgment. But what it brought last week was unique (TIME, Jan. 8). The pack's curiosity in Mowgli, the wolf-suckled youth, was apathetic compared to the public's interest in the new Airflow Chryslers and De Sotos. These were not the traditional automobile with a streamlined body attached but a completely new design. Instead of a frame and body the whole steel-trussed body is the frame. The steering wheel is almost perpendicular to the floor. The driver steers as he would a motorboat...