Word: allisons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...originally designed the ship to general British specifications early in the war. First named the P-51 Apache, it was shipped to Britain in 1941. In those grim days the British needed, above all else, fast-climbing, high-altitude interceptors. The Mustang's original 1,150-h.p. Allison engine could not haul it upstairs to catch the souped-up Messerschmitts that were cruising over England at 30,000 ft., so the planes were relegated to reconnaissance duty with the Army Co-operation Command-a hollow and almost academic assignment...
...foregoing are powered with liquid-cooled (Rolls-Royce and Allison) engines of substantially less than 2,000 h.p. Makers of the air-cooled engines (Wright and Pratt & Whitney) which drive U.S. bombers and transports, also produce fighter engines. Except for the new Grumman Hellcat, whose Pratt & Whitney engine is still secret as to power, the following types are driven by air-cooled Pratt & Whitney 2,000s...
...Such as:. Mrs. Philip Armour Jr., Mrs. Donald Allison, Mrs. Cyrus Adams...
...memories in Butte are long enough to go back to the hot day in July 1864 when G.O. Humphrey and William Allison struck gold on Butte Hill a few years before the hill's true wealth-copper -was discovered. But more than one Butte citizen could recall the icy December day in 1881 when an old-fashioned locomotive huffed & puffed up the newly completed Utah & Northern narrow-gauge railroad to connect Butte with Ogden, Utah (and the outside world) by rail...
...enclosed booklet consisted of a handsome cover picturing four Allison-powered planes (Lightning, Airacobra, Tomahawk, Mustang), a noncommittal introduction and conclusion, and 40 blank pages...