Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such "future business" of aviation is the special province of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. In three great laboratories (Langley Field, Va., Cleveland, and Ames, Calif.) the earnest, enthusiastic scientists of the NACA are digging out deep-hidden facts about high-speed flight. They put experimental wingshapes in big & little wind tunnels, and test their behavior far above Mach i. They test engines and engine components in wind tunnels too, to see how they behave at great speed, low pressure, low temperature. They devise new, more powerful fuels and high-temperature alloys...
...pigtailed, freckled nine-year-old tripped into the Cleveland Press last week and asked to see the editor. Instead of being shooed away, she was led straight to his office. Louis B. Seltzer shook Ruth Harriger by the hand, then gravely read the note she thrust out to him. It was from Ruth's father, an ex-Clevelander now living in New Mexico. He had written her to be sure to call on the Press while visiting in Cleveland. Busy Editor Seltzer dropped everything to take her on a tour of his shop, bought her an ice cream...
Partly because it is never too busy to see people, the Scripps-Howard Press has become the biggest, richest and most influential paper in Cleveland. Its red carpet is always out for readers, whether they come with a complaint, a hillbilly band or (it has happened) leading a bear, a goat or an elephant. They also bring in plenty of stories...
What Makes Louie Run. The man who makes the heart beat is short (5 ft. 5 in.), impish Louie Seltzer, just starting his 21st year as boss of the Press. Seltzer was born in a cottage back of a Cleveland firehouse, the son of Charles Alden Seltzer, an ex-cowpuncher who wrote westerns. Louis quit school at 10 to be a copy boy on the late Leader, became a cub reporter at 18. One day a new building collapsed in downtown Cleveland. Down three flights of stairs from the old Press city room scampered Seltzer...
...longtime research director for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1924-47); of a heart ailment; in Lake Winola, Pa. As head of the world's greatest aeronautical research agency (serving U.S. plane builders and the armed forces), Dr. Lewis fathered major experimental laboratories at Langley Field. Va., Cleveland, and Moffett Field, Calif., guided a spate of new developments (in propellers, jet propulsion, wind tunnels, etc.), including revolutionary wing designs which cut "profile drag" (the main hindrance to flight efficiency) by about...