Word: airings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a cruising range of about 1,200 miles, Avro's Jetliner was planned especially to meet Canadian conditions for fast, economical inter-city air service (it will not compete with the British De Havilland Comet for transocean traffic). An all-Canadian job except for its four Rolls-Royce Derwent V engines, it was designed to carry a load of 50 passengers plus crew of three, and to fly 430 m.p.h...
Over the Land. For the big job a fumbling, talent-hunting monster has been let loose in the land. It is, of course, only a Walt Disney kind of animated monster -immense, awesome, full of old air, essentially harmless and monstrously inefficient. Its eyes are rolling cameras; it has a kidney-shaped swimming pool for a mouth, talent scouts for teeth, and a broad backside armor-plated with thousand-dollar bills. The overall effect is that of a dredge...
...invitation had come 18 months ago from the "Open-Air Campaigners," an Australian revivalist group; at the time the Campaigners were not prosperous enough to advance travel expenses. Australia's Anglican Archbishop Howard W. K. Mowll at last raised the necessary funds, and Niemöller has laid out an extensive three-month speaking tour...
Affable, 52-year-old Roy Hurley has been in & out of the airplane business ever since he got a job as engine inspector for the Army's air service during World War I. Later he formed his own sparkplug concern, then moved in as vice president in charge of manufacturing of the Bendix Aviation Corp., where he remained for 13 years before joining Ford...
Curtiss farms, like the candy factory, are spick & span. The glass brick and tile barn for prize calves is air-conditioned, has electrically-charged screens to kill flies. There are calving and isolation wards. Explains Schnering: "Calf mortality on the average farm runs 25% to 40%. That's plain bad business. Our average is just about zero." Signs in the cow barns read: "Every cow on this farm is a lady and should be treated as such...