Word: flywheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respect for Sikorsky's genius, financed an experimental direct-lift machine. Sikorsky was obligingly frugal; all his years of helicopter research cost United less than $300,000. His Vought-Sikorsky 300 was simply a framework of welded pipes with a 75-h.p. aircraft engine and a big flywheel that was linked by automobile fan belting to the transmission of a single, three-bladed rotor. Nevertheless, it incorporated most of the principles of today's Sikorsky machines...
...them. Already they have received promises of bookmobiles from every sort of group from a truck drivers' local to the Honorable order of Kentucky Colonels. According to the project's heads, a donor can offer a whole bookmobile ($3,000) or just some of its parts-a flywheel for $9, a gas tank for $17.50, or even a connecting rod for 12?. So far, a total of 20 bookmobiles has been promised...
...dissolute college president, amoral private eye, cozening operatic entrepreneur, horse doctor posing as a fashionable neurologist ("Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped"), bogus Emperor of France?using such aliases as J. Cheever Loophole, Captain Spaulding, Professor Wagstaff, Detective Sam Grunion, Otis. B. Driftwood, Wolf J. Flywheel and Napoleon. Whatever the alias or whatever the rascality, he was always the same rascal, the con man who made no bones about the disdain he felt for the suckers he was trimming...