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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. The Rev. Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, 72, famed, 6' 7" pastor of the world's largest Presbyterian church (Seattle's first; congregation: 7,886), known to friends as "Tall Cedar of the Sierras." once famed as Seattle vice-crusader in Klondike days; of pneumonia; in Seattle, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

With a cruising range of more than 1,000 miles (at 325 m.p.h.) it can operate above 36,000 feet, lugs its pilot in comfort in a streamlined cabin with automobile-type doors. Strangest thing about it is that its engine, a 1,000 h. p., Prestone-cooled, inline Allison, is not in the nose, but behind the pilot. Built for sleek streamlining, the twelve-cylinder Allison (made by General Motors) drives the three-bladed prop through a shaft. Best thing about this is that it makes Airacobra's air-splitting nose thin and wartless, still leaves room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Airacobra | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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