Word: curtisses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LETTERS HOME-Arranged and edited by Mina Curtiss-Little, Brown...
Married. Oscar Ulysses Zerk, 65, millionaire inventor of the Zerk-Alemite lubricating system; and Adele Zerk, 20, a filing-clerk; in Kenosha, Wis. In the Caldwell, NJ. Curtiss-Wright plant, a letter signed by Mr. Zerk attracted Miss Zerk, who wrote to inquire about the similarity in names. After two months of correspondence, Mr. Zerk phoned Miss Zerk, proposed, journeyed to Caldwell, took her home to his Kenosha estate...
...aircraft propellers. To test homemade ones, he constructed a 300-ft. railway, mounted props on flatcars, learned which kinds had the greatest pull. His neighbors thought him mad. The upshot: patents on an electric controllable-pitch propeller, for which he draws royalties from such war-busy plants as Curtiss-Wright and Britain's Bristol Aeroplane...
Guam, Too. Douglas and Curtiss dive-bombers roared out of the predawn to smack the twin, 15-mile-long islands of Saipan and Tinian, while Grumman Hellcats provided cover and strafing. Later in the day a second strike was launched on schedule. A smaller delegation of Navy pilots bombed U.S.-owned Guam, 85 miles farther south, for the first time since the Japs seized it in December...
...Russia's newest, fastest, most maneuverable single-engined fighter. Its speed is 380 m.p.h. (slower than comparable U.S. types), its range 500 miles, its armament two cannon and two machine guns. Reportedly its engine is based on Curtiss-Wright designs...