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Word: curtiss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curtiss-Wright for 400 P-40 all-metal pursuits, to be powered with Allison engines. Reported speed: well above 400 m.p.h. >$2,880,000 to Consolidated (whose huge flying boats are U. S. Navy favorites) for four four-engined bombers, reportedly able to fly 280 m.p.h., carry 2,500 lbs. of bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: High & Fast | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Allison Engineering Co. factory, wholly owned by General Motors. There the sleek 1,200-h.p. motors that power the Army's fastest ships are built. Because the Air Corps takes the entire output of the plant, uses them to power speedy Lockheed, Bell and Curtiss pursuit ships and Bell cannon-carrying fighters (see p. 15), every Allison is a Prestone-cooled secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Powerful Secret | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Keyes, ss 5 16 1 4 8 15 5 .250 Tully, rf, lf 10 40 4 8 22 1 1 .200 Heckel, ss 6 20 0 4 4 14 3 .200 Healey, p 6 20 1 4 6 18 1 .200 Curtiss, p 4 9 1 1 1 5 0 .111 Lovett, lf 2 4 0 0 1 0 0 .000 Brackett, p 2 3 0 0 3 0 0 .000 Boston, c 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Bacon, c 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Gallucio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Official Crimson Averages | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson, Healey may not travel the full nine innings if Johns, Lupien, and some of the other "big stick" boys can put the game on ice early, because it is essential that Big Tom be well rested for the all-important game at Hanover Saturday. Slim Curtiss is first in line for relief duty...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: NINE FACES LIONS AT SOLDIERS FIELD | 5/3/1939 | See Source »

...Boston, c 1 2 0 0 0 0 .000 Bacon, c 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 Levett, If 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 .000 Merrill, 2b 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 .500 Healey, p 5 17 1 3 4 16 1 .176 Curtiss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Official Crimson Averages | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

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