Word: chuting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atkinson, about to take a plane up for testing, climbed out of the cockpit at the last minute to borrow a parachute. In the air a few minutes later the plane fell into a tailspin from which Pilot Atkinson could not pull out. With his borrowed 'chute, he jumped...
...Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper 5,326 6,7470 Caterpillar Tractor 11,600 8,714 Congress Cigar 2,882 1,652 Crucible Steel 8,162 4,045 B. F. Goodrich 7,446 8,4OoD Hudson Motor Car 11,594 324 International Safety Razor. . 505 454 Irving Air Chute (para chutes) 452 241 Jewel Tea Co 1,691 1,705 La Salle Extension University 341 167 McGraw-Hill Publishing. ... 2,231 2,021 Marion Steam Shovel 534 68sD Mullins (motor body parts) Mfg 476 331D Parke, Davis & Co 8,331 7,514 Prairie Pipe Line 22,800 14,637 Remington Rand...
...Grosse He Airport, Detroit, last week Pilot Vance Breese took a Parks biplane to 2,500 ft., cut the motor, stalled it into a spin, yanked a release cord. A little "pilot 'chute" popped out of its container under the fuselage, dragging a big 'chute (60 ft.) billowing up and over the tail. The plane, suspended by its centre wing section from the parachute, floated earthward at about 15 m. p. h.. swinging and gyrating as it settled. On alighting, only damage was to landing-gear and lower wing...
Detroit Aircraft Corp., promoters of the demonstration, announced the device (developed by Russell Parachute Co.) might be optional equipment on some of their 1931 models. The experimental 'chute weighed less than 100 lb. Designers said a model weighing 130 to 160 lb. could be installed in heavy transport and mail planes...
...about Cuba's horn-spectacled President General Gerardo Machado y Morales, El Gallo (The Rooster): that he is completely subservient to U. S. big business interests, that all serious political opponents are exiled from Cuba, that political prisoners are thrown to the sharks of Havana harbor from a chute in the Cabana fortress (next to Morro Castle), that though private crime has been spectacularly reduced, political assassination is common; etc., etc. (TIME, March 11, et seq.). One night last week Editor Pacheco found himself in a position to write no more. A curtained automobile stopped in front...