Word: allison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week had on hand only one of the 37-mm. cannon which fire through the Airacobra's nose. He had only one propeller designed for the cannon (which projects through a hole in the propeller hub). Worst of all he had only three liquid-cooled, in-line Allison engines...
...Several factors account for this difference: i) The Lockheed P-38 is a much bigger (11,171 lb. unloaded, compared to the Hurricane's 4,670 lb.) and faster (404 m.p.h. to 335 m.p.h.) plane; 2) it has two Allison engines instead of the Hurricane's single, less expensive Rolls Royce Merlin; 3) it has not yet gone into mass production; 4) in Britain the average weekly wage for aircraft workers is about $20, in the U. S. about...
...authors were Dr. John Dollard, of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, and Allison Davis, head of the social studies department at Dillard University, now lecturing at University of Chicago. Allison Davis, a lightskinned, upper-class Negro, has degrees from Williams and Harvard, studied at the London School of Economics, won so many honors at Williams that he got a prize for winning prizes...
...slow production rate of the Allison engine plant in Indianapolis has been the biggest disappointment in the air rearmament of the U. S. Only high-powered (1,000 h.p.) U. S. liquid-cooled engine, the Allison is the U. S. Army Air Corps's one present hope for building airplanes around slim, streamlinable power plants. It will continue to be the only hope until another, possibly the Rolls-Royce Merlin (TIME, July 15), is put into production in a U. S. factory. Last week Allison's production was reputedly rising from a monthly rate of about...
With Big Bill Knudsen of General Motors heading procurement for Franklin Roosevelt's Defense Advisory Commission, no one doubted that General Motors' Allison plant would get plenty of steam in its boiler. To see what could be done about speeding up the main Indianapolis plant, the Army Air Corps sent as its factory representative a famed flier-engineer who was once one of its brightest technical stars. Stubby, go-getting Reserve Major James Harold Doolittle, famed speed pilot and Sc.D. in Aeronautical Engineering (M. I. T.), was recalled to active duty from civilian life, was glad to answer...