Word: allisons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While the Navy held to air-cooled for its pursuit ships, the Army Air Corps (now The Army Air Forces) in 1939 turned to liquid-cooled, subsequently laid down $190,000,000 in contracts for the 1,090 h.p. 12-cylinder Allison, manufactured by General Motors. Among the planes it got for its Allison money were a couple of notable dandies: the Bell Airacobra and the twin-engined Lockheed. Airacobra, with 1,090 h.p., ticked off close to 400 miles an hour, is a pilot's airplane to boot -handy and maneuverable. The Lockheed, driven by two Allisons, topped...
Texas is proud of its homebred sport stars: Football's Sammy Baugh, Baseball's Dizzy Dean, Tennis' Wilmer Allison. But when it comes to golf, the Lone Star State has no lone star but a little dipper full: Ralph Guldahl, Byron Nelson, Jimmy Demaret, Ben Hogan, Lloyd Mangrum, Harry Cooper. In the Augusta Masters last year, Texans finished...
While these things happened, Packard went ahead tooling for its Rolls-Royce contract, expected to go into production by September. From its plant at Indianapolis, Allison was in smooth production (25 a day). General Motors had just adopted a new process for making Allison crankshafts 20-30% stronger than before. Still under test was Allison's new engine that may still match Britain's superpowered, engines: a 24-cylinder power plant (built in a W, not an H like the Napier), designed to equal the Sabre's power...
...reference to your article, "Food: A Weapon," TIME, March 31. Leaving Hitler out of this, if possible-what if the farmers of the U.S. should go on a strike for highert wages, shorter working hours, two weeks vacation with pay ? Oh ! My goodness! What am I saying! JAMES E. ALLISON Asheville...
...future production until they were fed up, have had very little solid news of production now. Last week they had a satisfying mouthful of such solid news. The cautious Wall Street Journal added up the February output of the chief U. S. military aircraft engine makers (Wright, Pratt & Whitney, Allison). The totals: about 2,600 units, up 200 from January, up from a piddling 200-300 units since September 1939. Prospects were even brighter: 2,800 in March, 3,500-3,700 a month by July, 8,500 a month (or 100,000 engines a year) by April...