Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With four veterans returning from last year's banner crew, Coach Tom Bolles looks forward to another successful year for the Varsity Crimson oarsmen. "If these four men do as well as they did last year they should make this year's crew," said Bolles yesterday, making it clear that the "if" is a very important one. Speaking of his Varsity boat, he said. "They haven't proven to me yet that they're the best boat...
During their trial runs Saturday the Yale third Varsity crew consistently heat the seconds in every sprint...
...coach, seeking the cause of the fluke, shifted the strokes and seven men in the two crews, demoting those of the second to the third. Still the third boat won. Two by two he exchanged third crew men for those in the second and when they had all been shifted the men of the original second crew were winning in the third crew's shell...
...submit plans of ocean aircraft to its unsalaried technical adviser, Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Left out of the bids was a ninth manufacturer, Major Alexander de Seversky, who promptly secured P. A. A.'s permission to submit drawings. The plane called for was to carry 100 passengers, a crew of 16, fly 5,000 miles nonstop up to 20,000 ft. at 200 m.p.h...
...faster than any other, carry nearly twice the payload P. A. A. asked for. Its specifications: weight about 250,000 Ib.; five propellers driven by eight motors developing 18,400 h. p.; cruising speed a flat 250 m.p.h.; a wing 250 ft. long and triple fuselage accommodating 120 passengers, crew of 16, a dining room for 50, observation deck, cocktail bar, promenade, 70 toilets and a lifeboat. Pontoons serve also as shock absorbers, retract in flight into the hulls of the two main fuselages. The whole ship in stainless steel, by collaboration with Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co.. costs...