Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starnes had jumped before-more than 300 times. But, until last week, he had still not answered a vexing question: What happens to a flyer's heart, lungs and circulatory system when he plunges earthward from a disabled airplane at high altitude and falls free as long as he dares, 1) to escape the enemy, 2) to get into warm, breathable air? The Army and many a scientist wanted to know the answer...
Twenty-odd years as a playwright have lined George S. Kaufman's purse well enough for him to take a flyer in the producing game, and the vehicle he has picked to lay his name and dough behind is up for inspection at the Plymouth these days. When we looked in, it was doing a fair job of rolling them in the aisles, although more than a little primping was indicated before Mr. Kaufman ventures to move his baby to Manhattan for the season, or part...
...Said Beaudette: "I think I'll just forget the whole thing." .. Bryan Untiedt, schoolboy hero feted in 1931 for his rescue of 15 children from a blizzard-bound bus, married Marjorie Bowman, 22, of Denver. Untiedt, now 23, is a Denver carpenter. ...Baron Franz von Werra, Nazi flyer who fled a Canadian prison camp for the U.S. and then skipped the U.S. for Germany, married one Irene Traut.....Of a lovelorn lawyer waiting her return to Brazil, Carmen Miranda told reporters: "He is a very patient man. . . . But Brazil is so far away and here in New York there...
Founder Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-born flyer-designer, was tossed out by his stockholders in 1940. Cautious, businesslike W. Wallace Kellett, autogyro developer, replaced him, while war orders boomed sales tenfold. But early this year Kellett ran into a pack of production troubles (retooling, shortages, etc.). Deliveries sank to only $2,300,000 v. $6,530,000 in the final half...
Scientists from M.I.T., Caltech, Stanford, Harvard, the U.S. Weather Bureau took part in the research and design, but the idea man behind the windmill is Palmer Cosslet Putnam, onetime geologist in the Belgian Congo, flyer for Britain in World War I, president (1931) of G. P. Putnam's Sons, Manhattan publishers. "So far as we know," ventures Inventor Putnam, "this is the first attempt to generate alternating current by means of the wind for interconnection with a distribution system."* Engineers are sure that wind-generated electricity will be no costlier than water-generated, may possibly prove cheaper...