Word: equipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reluctance of the Air Corps to re-equip with monoplanes has been due to incomplete research into wing construction. At extreme speeds, a monoplane wing is subject to "flutter," or rhythmic oscillation, which leads to rapid destruction of the member involved. The new Boeing model has satisfactorily overcome this difficulty, performs better than its biplane cousin. Equipped with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp motor, supercharged to develop 475 h. p., it cruises at 165 m. p. h., has a high speed well in excess of 200 m. p. h. It carries two machine guns shooting through the propeller, a bomb-rack...
...assistant director of athletics stated, Muir will be in the pool every day to give instruction in swimming. On Wednesday he will give the first installment of a ten-hour Red Cross life-saving course. The course will be given on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and is designed to equip men better for assuming duties as counsellors in camps during the summer. Last year 41 Seniors passed the tests and 13 licensed examiners in life-saving were created...
Next day Governor Green instructed his Attorney-General, Wilber M. Brucker, to investigate the State's enforcement officers for negligence in executing the State Prohibition Act, with its minimum mandatory jail sentence of one year for first offenders. Likewise he prepared to secure the necessary appropriations to equip his State police on Prohibition enforcement duty with three bullet-proof automobiles, a dozen bullet-proof vests, six Thompson machine guns, a large supply of tear...