Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lower wing, between the two chain-driven propellers. The twelve-horsepower engine coughed, spat and began to clatter. With Wilbur running alongside holding one wing, the plane teetered down its wooden launching rail and rose unsteadily into the air. For twelve seconds it lurched slowly forward like an uncertain box kite, dipping and bobbing a few feet above the ground, then settled back on to the cold sand...
...Hill. They sewed the sateen for the wings on a neighbor's sewing machine. They figured out a way to warp the wings to keep the plane on an even keel (the principle of present-day ailerons). They built the first wind tunnel out of an old starch box, tried hundreds of different wing shapes, found that practically all published data on flying were useless...
...pictures or antiques reach the telescreen. Another factor: cautious, fiercely competitive Hollywood moves slowly-as it did in taking up sound 21 years ago. The highest hurdle is the real, ever-present fear that the living room teleset will make a deep dent in the nation's movie box offices...
While police were counting the money found in the box, a two hour job, the owner did a quick disappearing act. he has not yet been found, and police are withholding his name until they establish a more definite link with the Coop case. A co-holder of the same box could not be reached yesterday...
...additional $7,600 of alleged loot was discovered yesterday when police opened a safe deposit box rented by Mavrides...