Word: duralumin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Highway Trailer Co.: Duralumin trailers...
...money (paper without gold or silver backing) to pay the Heinkel works, say, for airplanes. Next year when Heinkel comes to pay corporation taxes, it pays not in cash but in the fiat certificates. Meanwhile Heinkel may, if it wishes, use the certificates to help pay for purchases of Duralumin, rivets, engine parts. In transactions other than tax payments certificates may never exceed 40% of the purchase price, the rest to be paid in cash. What the plan really comes down to is using future taxes for present needs...
Although setting out a much higher stroke the Yardlings lost the start to the light duralumin Tech shell. Not until the three-quarters did Captain Sherm Gray's cocky eight forge ahead, rowing two points higher than the Engineers. It took the final sprint to the finish to show up the hidden power of the Crimson. Gaining four feet at each stroke the Freshman managed to jump ahead with a deck-length of open water...
...engineers last week were busy marking a milestone with the 82,500-lb. Atlantic Clipper, seeing in it more fame from "lasts" than "firsts." It is the last of the "little" airplanes, the last airplane with engines outside, the last of duralumin, maybe the last with gasoline for fuel. P. A. A.'s 225,000-lb. "dream ships" now a-planning and due in three years will be steel, maybe Diesel-motored...
Back in Inglewood, Calif. Cortlandt Hill had a pair of plywood passenger cars which resembled ordinary units of a streamlined duralumin train, but which were mounted on their running gear in a manner which he and several partners claimed was brand-new for railroad cars. Invented by William Van Dorn and Dr. F. C. Lindvall of California Institute of Technology, who have been working on the cars for the past two years in an abandoned Northrup Aviation hangar, the coaches are sprung on a "pendulum" principle by which four heavy vertical coil springs above each...