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...hand at commercial transports. The experimental DCi, slightly improved and renamed DC-2, was the result. Last week, the much-heralded DC-3 (also known as DST, for Douglas Sleeper Transport) finally made its debut. Almost identical with the DC2 in lines, it is 4-ft. longer, much fatter, seats 24 or sleeps 16. The largest landplane in the U. S., it cruises at 200 m.p.h., costs no more to run than the DC-2. At $105,000 apiece, ten have been ordered by United Air Lines, 20 by American Airlines. American got the first three, scheduled them...
...their admirers base predictions of its outcome. Winner of the Grand National of 1935 was Major Noel Furlong's Irish gelding Reynoldstown, ridden by his son Frank, who was delighted because first prize ($32,000) enabled him to marry. Last week Frank Furlong, married to Pamela Kingsmill and fatter than a year ago, was too heavy to ride his father's horse but Reynoldstown was in the race again, patently unaware of the hazards that tradition placed against his winning. The first time round, his rider, Fulke Walwyn, lost his whip but Reynoldstown stayed with the leaders without...
...which are being built for American Airlines, has passed its tests, but is not yet in service. Similar to the DC2 in design, it is slightly longer, much fatter. Whereas DC2 seats 14, DST seats 24, has berths for 16. Cruising at 200 m.p.h., it can carry 24,000 lb. gross load, can fly across the continent with only one stop...
Most obvious ingredients in the West formula are her extraordinary shape, clothes and means of locomotion. In Goin' to Town she is fatter about the middle than hitherto. Her clothes are less extravagant and consequently less becoming. Her gait remains unchanged...
...human being precisely what he is. The balance changes during life, making the baby a boy, the boy a youth, the youth a man, the man a dotard. Disease or accident, food or medicine may alter the balance. Then one may be smarter or duller than natural, thinner or fatter, more brave or more backward. A woman with an overactive thyroid is a busybody with a quick pulse, a temperature slightly above normal. She wants to wolf all kinds of food. The doctor may quiet her by dosing her neck with x-rays or the surgeon may cut out part...