Word: descent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should have done, as his companion observer did do, was to pop his head out of the cockpit and take still photographs of the icy summit. Instead he was barely able to stop the leak in his oxygen pipe with his handkerchief as both planes slid down the long descent from their objective. It was later found that neither cinema machine had functioned continuously throughout the flight. Only other mishap reported, when the two planes, having traveled 320 mi., alighted at Purnea exactly three hours after the flight began, was that Lieut. Mclntyre's electrically heated gloves had performed...
...membership in the new genealogical Society les Chevaliers de Hastings (Paris), applicants must prove 900 years of descent from one of William the Conqueror's 315 blooded henchmen. U. S. applicants: American Locomotive Co.'s President William Carter Dickerman, Underwood Elliott Fisher Co.'s President Philip Dakin Wagoner, retired Pennsylvania Banker Mordecai Jackson Crispin...
...like the letter S. As the plane moves forward, air pressure causes the rotor to revolve backward. That action, combined with the forward movement, produces low pressure on top of the rotor, increased pressure (lift) on the bottom. If the motor should quit the rotor continues to spin in descent, the lift force stretching the plane's course into a long glide. Unconsciously Designer Hatlestad had employed the Savonius windmill principle.* His scheme is not to be confused with the Flettner rotor or recently publicized paddle-wing rotorplanes, both of which involve power-driven rotors...
From Butte to Albuquerque and from Kansas City to Salt Lake-the territory claimed for the Post's 150,000 circulation-the Bonfils career is epic. Everyone knows that he boasted Corsican descent (his father, a Troy, Mo. judge, changed the name from Buonfiglio) and kinship to Napoleon. Handsome, swarthy, he quit West Point in 1881 and tried his hand at land-trading in the Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas booms. His rough-&-tumble methods brought him, if not friends, a neat pot of money with which he started a lottery in Kansas. Bonfils had taken...
Career: His father, oldtime California politician and one-term (1895-97) Congressman, long served Southern Pacific R. R. as counsel. His mother was of French descent. He left the University of California his junior year to become a shorthand reporter. Studying law in his father's office he was admitted to the bar in 1888, moved to San Francisco 14 years later where he has since made his home. As a young assistant to Francis Joseph Heney, famed prosecutor, he helped drive out San Francisco's ''boodlers" and convicted notorious Abe Ruef of bribery after Heney...