Word: duralumin
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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...
...swells, came upon what was left of the $320,000 Samoan Clipper 14 miles northwest of Pago Pago-a drawer, pieces of a coat, pages of the engineering log, part of the navigating desk, a pair of trousers. The debris, blown to bits, riddled with holes and imbedded with duralumin powder indicated a terrific mid-air explosion with instant death to all on board and immediate sinking of the ship's shattered hull in water a mile deep and alive with sharks. One was caught nearby a few days later with a man's bones in his belly...
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...
...would still have Rainbow to fall back on for a defender. Before work began on Ranger-built up to the 87-ft. waterline limit-a tiny model was raced against a miniature Endeavour I, proved much faster. After Ranger was launched, she ran into bad luck promptly. Her duralumin mast snapped while she was being towed to Bristol, R. I. for fitting out (TIME, May 24). As soon as she started to race, her bad luck ceased...