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...tunnels, designed to discover how fast and high a plane can go before it burns up, falls apart or bursts, are at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and at the Curtiss-Wright plant in Buffalo, N.Y. Cal Tech proudly calls its tunnel, financed by four California planemakers, the world's most advanced. It will test all-metal models with 8-to-10-ft. wing spans, at air speeds up to 750 m.p.h., generated by two giant aluminum fans...
I.C.S. officials and faculty are rightfully proud of the men they have helped to fame. Among them are the late Walter P. Chrysler, Curtiss-Wright President Guy Warner Vaughan, Rifle Inventor John C. Garand, Curtis Publishing Company's President Walter Fuller, the C.I.O.'s Philip Murray. Britain's famed Cartoonist David Low got his start in New Zealand with a four-year I.C.S. cartooning course. Recently I.C.S. received a grateful letter praising "the schooling which Dad got from your correspondence course. . . ." The writer: E. N, Eisenhower, brother of the Supreme Commander...
...good grey New York Times appeared a picture of Curtiss-Wright's new XP-55 experimental fighter (see U.S. AT WAR). The Times ran a five-line headline to explain solemnly why the new backside-to plane is called the Ascender...
EXPERIMENTAL FIGHTER CRAFT MADE BY CURTISS-WRIGHT HAS SUCH A HIGH RATE OF CLIMB IT HAS BEEN DUBBED THE ASCENDER
...weekend after WPB curtailed their fuel. Then by newspaper and radio pleas they frantically tried to get them back after WPB changed its mind. Householders in Columbus, Ohio were told to cut down on their baths, flush their toilets only once a day per person so that the huge Curtiss-Wright plant would have enough water. Reason: the severe cold had kept snow from melting normally, lowered water in reservoirs...