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Other new wrinkles include rotary door latches that catch without slamming; increased visibility through bigger windshield area; sliding sunshine panels in sedan tops; "catwalk-cooling" grilles low-set on the catwalk apron between hood and fenders to scoop up the theoretically cooler air near the ground. Adopted by no manufacturer but approved by the U. S. Patent Office is an extra-special gadget invented by David O. Wilson of Santa Monica, Calif.-at the touch of a button on the dash, this rear-end device waggles a derisive tongue and gives a Bronx cheer to the horntooter behind...
...first of six Atlantic Clippers for P. A. A. Among its features new to passenger aircraft are: 1) a "flight deck" for the twelve-man crew as big as the total inside area of the biggest U. S. land transport now flying; 2) engines, reached by a catwalk through the wings, behind which an engineer can stand to mend fuel lines, change spark plugs in flight; 3) unlike any other flying boat, once in the water it will remain there and, like a ship, emerge only for repairs in an aircraft drydock; 4) it possesses a full-size flight...
...Ohio Penitentiary, Columbus, Inmate James Mason climbed the prison's 150-ft. water tower, remained on its catwalk 17 hours in a "sit-up" strike for parole. His reward: psychoanalysis...
...this came out next morning when the cabin which the man in the beret had occupied was found empty, in violent disorder, its washstand and the catwalk outside its open, window bloodstained. On the floor were shattered glasses, a wrist watch, its metal band wrenched and broken, and a nickel. No one could place his red-faced friend, but purser's records identified the missing man as Charles F. Keene. His disappearance was apparently the first drama in Mr. Keene's life. He had lived with his wife in a modest residential hotel in Washington...
...used to discharge gas through the bottom of the ship at the catwalk. Today it is done through ventilating shafts at the top of the ship. In earlier days the exhausts were located nearer to the central corridor than now, yet we never had any ignition then. Under those conditions we have valved gas hundreds of times without fire...