Word: corsaire
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...East Hartford, Conn, last week a two-year-old Vought Corsair biplane scuttled along a runway, picked up its tail and leaped aloft after an amazingly short take-off run of 50 yd. The pilot whipped the plane into a vertical bank, streaked back at 225 m.p.h. The roar of the motor, one newshawk said afterward, was the deepest note he had ever heard from an aircraft engine. This engine was Pratt & Whitney's new 1830 Wasp, described by its makers as the most powerful ever developed for standard service in the U. S. Before the flight demonstration another...
...possible since United Aircraft is a chunk of old United Aircraft & Transport Corp. The chunk was broken off in the summer of 1934 after the U. S. Government objected to combination of air transport companies with makers of planes and engines. United Aircraft makes Pratt & Whitney engines, Hamilton propellers, Corsair military planes, Sikorsky amphibians. Good customer is Pan American Airways, for whom United Aircraft built the Sikorsky China Clipper flying the new transpacific route (TIME, Dec. 2). Earning 21? a share United Aircraft sold last week at $30, about 143 times earnings...
Down in New London, Connecticut, where the population doubles on the day of the boat race and J. P. Morgan's "Corsair" riding peacefully at anchor on June 22 sets the natives gasping annually--down in New London there is a newspaper entitled the New London Day. Nobody ever hears of this paper except on the day of the boat race when they print their extra in blue ink, but the other day this insignificant little sheet broke into the headlines of other papers...
...commissioned yachts in Eastern waters were crowded into the mouth of the Thames. Biggest were boats like Carl Tucker's Migrant (661 tons), Arthur Curtiss James's Aloha (659 tons), Hiram Edward Manville's Hi-Esmaro (1,333 tons). J. P. Morgan's Corsair (2,181 tons), like Gerard B. Lambert's three-masted schooner Atlantic (303 tons), stayed in the harbor below the bridge. Her Harvard-alumnus owner, wearing an old panama with a blue ribbon, bought 18 observation-car tickets for himself and guests, smiled when the conductor counted them twice. Scattered along...
...Pierpont Morgan's yacht "Corsair" was the scene of the Harvard crew's sojourn yesterday. Accompanied by Bill Bingham, the entire squad spent the day cruising on Long Island Sound as the guests of the financier and Crimson alumnus...