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When they reached the first of the three roller-coaster Newton hills, Tarzan decided to climb the hill as fast as he could. Opening his mouth wide for a minute he let the raindrops trickle in. Then, refreshed, he streaked up the hill like a supercharged racing car. From then on, it was a lonely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brave Victory | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Color Flight is a four-minute visual and musical experience that resembles a roller coaster ride through a kaleidoscope to the accompaniment of a swing band. Actually, it is a 400-foot (half a reel) short, translating into the terms of color and movement a rumba played by the Lecuona Cuban Boys and Honolulu Blues, a swing classic played by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. Very unobtrusive is the function for which it will be released by Britain's General Post Office Film Unit- to advertise Imperial Airways. About ten years of experimenting and five previous color productions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Film Painter | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

George Olive tallied the 'Coaster touchdown, and Captain Jack Lucey booted a perfect placement to give Adams its victory margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADAMS WINS FINALE | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

Leverett won its first game, upsetting Adams 13-0, by breaking up a much vaunted 'Coaster passing attack. The Bunnies, in their turn, tallied twice via the air ways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons and Rabbits Triumph | 10/26/1938 | See Source »

...turn such blades efficiently, airplanes must have lustier power plants. Last week Vega Airplane Co., a Lockheed subsidiary, announced specifications for a plane with two motors in one unit, geared with overrunning clutches to a single propeller. Overrunning clutches, similar in effect to a bicycle coaster brake or to the overdrive principle in some modern automobiles, permit a failing motor automatically to disengage itself, saving the still-functioning motor the strain of working against the inertia and compression of the dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: High & Fast | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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