Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Harry Miller, who built nearly all the first-string racing cars in this country, stopped building racing cars two or three years ago, the waves of nationalism that have swept over Italy and Germany have resulted in the development of the most prodigious racing machines ever seen. The Italian Alfa-Romeos and the German Mercedes and Auto Union, which are their match in every respect, have engines of over 400 h.p. in cars which weigh less than half the weight of a Chevrolet, and they have all exceeded a speed of 200 mi. per hour on the straight. They...
...built, mounted and operated like a machine gun except that a trigger squeeze shoots a number of frames on a 16 mm. cinema film instead of a burst of bullets. After a sham battle, the pilots can see, precisely, where shots would have gone had they been firing a real gun. If there is any argument as to who "hit" first, the question is instantly settled by the time recorded to a split second on the film. List price of a machine-gun camera...
...principle employed in the oldtime stereoscope. Pictures of the same area are shot from two slightly different positions, thus providing a parallax in the same way that a person's two eyes do in normal sight. The two pictures are then inserted in a super-glorified stereoscope (built with Zeiss for $50,000). So accurate are the controls, so precise the instruments, that with the aid of another optical illusion it is possible on a flat map to trace from the apparent relief shown by the stereoscope the contour lines passing through points of the same elevation. Relatively limited...
Profitable though it has been, the camera and survey division has not been able to offset the aircraft losses. Founder Fairchild 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...
...zealous defender of banal ideas and a tyrannical foster-father; Brother Bill is a sneak thief who has acquired a great store of misinformation about sex; Mother Lizz is a hard-hitting slattern whose great regret is that she did not become a nun; Aunt Margaret is a well-built hotel cashier whose love affair with a lumberman lifts her into the world of affairs and drives her to drink. The only warm-hearted character in the book is Jim O'Neill, who suffers as he watches his children being taken by relatives, suf fers more as he watches...