Word: airflows
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...cannot make the sounds p, m, f, v, w. Such people need surgical treatment, or perhaps a mechanical palate. Their main problem is to expel air through the mouth, not the nose. To learn this, they blow soap bubbles and rubber balloons, sometimes hold to their lips an "airflow indicator"-a gadget consisting of a wheel which revolves when air escapes from the mouth, a paper which flutters when air is exhaled from the nose...
Chrysler introduced "Airflow" design in 1934, is ballyhooing streamlining again. The four lines, 26 models, are about one-and-a-half inches lower but wider at seat level. Priced from...
...knot motor yacht Q. E. D., streamlined startler designed by and built for Dutch Airman Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker in his slickest airflow style, sank in the Hudson River near Yonkers, N. Y. Honeymooning on the borrowed boat were a bride and groom of five hours, friends of Fokker, when a fire started in an ornamental fireplace in an after cabin, spread quickly, driving honeymooners and crew overboard. At the launching a year ago, Designer Fokker mused: "I hope it will be obsolete within two years. . . . That is good. That is progress. Today there are too many yachts that outlive...
Chrysler comes in two series-Royal and Imperial. Principal change is the abandonment of the Airflow body type of last year, though its engineering principles are retained. The low-price Royal has been lengthened from 116 to 119 in. wheelbase, the Imperial from 121 to 125. Both have larger hydraulic brakes, bigger engines, redesigned hoods...
...whenever the pilot wishes. If an engine fails, the pilot merely adjusts the propeller pitch to 90°, which means that the blades feather (present a streamlined knife-edge to the wind), do not revolve. This is important because when a motor fails the airflow makes the dead propeller "windmill," which usually damages the disabled motor just as pushing an automobile forward with gears meshed but engine dead may strip the gears. Tried out on several military types by both army and navy, the new propeller last week won a fat contract from the Army-240 for an average price...