Word: designs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such, briefly, are the features of the new Navy dirigible designed by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron and awarded first prize ($50,000) in the Airship Competition Board's contest for the best dirigible design. The Board, headed by Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, has recommended that the contract for constructing the ship be also given to the Goodyear company, and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur has approved the recommendation. Should the Goodyear company build the ship, it cannot collect the $50,000 for the design, a stipulation of the contest being that if the company submitting...
...year-old Nordic, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who is everybody's hero, and the backers of a 41-year-old Latin, Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, who is as obscure in the popular eye as he is small in stature (5 ft., 1 in.). And yet, it is Mr. Bellanca who designed the Columbia that stayed in the air over the U. S. for 51 hours and later flew 3,905 miles, who carries in his pocket the plans for a plane to travel 300 miles per hour, who carries in his mind the plans for gigantic transatlantic airliners, who is regarded...
Then Giuseppe Mario Bellanca began to put sticks and canvas together. His first plane, a compromise in design between his own ideas and those of his friends who furnished the money, crashed at the start of its maiden voyage. He was convinced that the early pusher type of plane with propeller in the rear was wrong. His next plane, which he hoped would conquer the English channel, was designed with the propeller in front, No one seemed anxious to purchase a motor for him, so he stayed on the ground-again disappointed-while Louis Blériot crossed the English...
...outside of the building is to be collegiate Gothic in design to harmonize with the rest of the campus buildings. The interior will be Elizabethan. The stage will be equipped with a view toward the possibility of using the theatre by visiting professional as well as master theatre companies...
...tattooed lady revealed unexplored fields of exterior design to Oscar who wailed at my refusal to allow him to fresce his front with the Spirit of St. Louis and an angel. I might also tell about the Haiwaians. But that is not for publication...