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...Double Wasp, workhorse engine of World War II, and the R-4360 Wasp Major, most powerful aircraft piston engine ever made. Pratt & Whitney was a late starter with postwar jets, but Hobbs soon lapped the field with his J-57, the engine that earned him the prized Collier Trophy in 1953, made Pratt & Whitney No. 1 engine supplier for U.S. military aircraft...
...heeled fiction magazines, the Atlantic-which helped pioneer the short story-has long been forced to search for stories by new and inexpensive writers, and has started many U.S. authors on the road to fame. Example: in 1927, after Cosmopolitan, the old Scribner's, Saturday Evening Post and Collier's had all turned down a brutally succinct short story about a crooked prizefighter, it was accepted by Staffer Edward Weeks, now editor of the Atlantic. Titled Fifty Grand, it was the first story by Ernest Hemingway to be published in a general-circulation U.S. magazine...
...first White House Autogiro landing was made April 22, 1931, when James Ray stepped out of a Pitcairn to receive the 1930 Collier Trophy from President Hoover. President Taft witnessed the first airplane landing there (by Harry Atwood...
...Breathe Only Out. In London, Dr. H.O.J. Collier suggested that in view of the increasing hazards of radiation, modern health rules be distilled to three essentials: i) stop seeing the doctor and thus avoid X rays: 2) drink no milk, thus limit intake of cesium-137 (a radioactive isotope) j 3) stay indoors to be shielded from cosmic rays...
...Whitman College, became a reporter in Seattle in 1932, worked nine years for the United Press, roved for the Chicago Daily News in World War II, covering the battle of Britain and the fall of Rome. Later he worked for CBS in Berlin and London and for Collier's in Europe and the Mideast. He was head of radio and TV news for CBS when the then un-merged A.F.L. lured him back to the microphone in 1954. Since then, Morgan has sometimes differed with A.F.L.-C.I.O. policy, e.g., he thinks that the U.S. should recognize Red China...