Word: amphibian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...built his first plane because he could not find one that suited him for photographic work, starting commercial production in 1926. During Depression engine and aircraft sales shrank to a low of $72,000 (in 1931). Since then Fairchild has entered the transport field, has developed a high-speed amphibian popular with Pan American Airways, is developing for the Navy an in-line air-cooled motor. Sales recovered to $511,000 last year, and a comfortable backlog of orders is now on the books...
...universe-a theory for which Professor Einstein has long been the No. i searcher. Roughly speaking, "non-affine" space is undistorted space. Dr. Cartan finds that some of the "vectors" with which Relativists play have a dual existence-in distorted Einstein space and in undistorted Euclidean space. These amphibian vectors may be links between cosmos and microcosmos. In Dr. Cartan's audience reporters could not find a single mathematician who could explain his method in layman's language. Dr. Cartan tried himself, conscientiously, through an interpreter. Presently all hands admitted defeat, disbanded...
...club across the street from his tough brother's speakeasy. Unmarried and supposedly well-off, he occasionally splurges money in such ways as insuring his voice for $1,000,000. Lately he has made a hobby of aviation, become a pilot himself. Last year he set a world amphibian altitude record, since bettered...
Designer Seversky then stripped his amphibian of its pontoons, entered it in an Army trainer competition. Despite jeers from other competitors, it won a contract for 35 planes at a cost of $874,000. Designer Seversky continued to tinker his plane, last June produced a pursuit model which is said to be among the world's fastest, with a top speed of nearly 300 m.p.h. After a competition at Dayton, the Army bought...
...Seversky plane which last week was going through its paces at Dayton was a third variation on the Seversky amphibian. A low-wing monoplane with two seats, it is a slower model of the pursuit plane, built husky to withstand the beating Army trainers must take. By stepping up the motor, adding two panels to the multi-box wing, it can readily be converted into the speedy pursuit ship, suitable...