Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aerodynamics of gliding is that of motored flight. First airplanes lacked motors. Otto Lilienthal, air pioneer (anda German) was killed by his glider falling. But few others have had serious accidents...
...possible for a handy amateur to build a glider out of spruce or pine, wire, and fabric. Design is quite like that for a monoplane. (One popular German model amazingly resembles a Lockheed-Vega.) Wingspan may be up to 65 feet (span of a staunch commercial Ford trimotored transport). But 25 feet is more practical for beginners. The National Glider Association at Detroit will furnish blue prints. However best advice warns against amateur construction, or patching together of old motored plane parts...
...TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.). Last week a news leak from the secret Committee sessions revealed that of all the Allied delegates only M. Francqui has roughly baited and tried out cross-examination methods on Germany's correct and stiff-necked "Iron Man." famed Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Chief German Delegate and Governor of the Reichsbank. Typical was the reply of Belgian Croesus Francqui, last week, when correspondents impertinently asked whether the Belgian Government is paying his expenses in Paris...
Progress. The experts at Paris were understood to have agreed, last week, that $100,000,000 will represent the working capital of the proposed Bank of International Settlement. If and when established the Bank will act as a corporate trustee for the stupendous volume of German payments-the idea being to place "on a business basis" the present semipolitical functions of the Reparations Commission, which is to be absorbed by the B. I. S. This idea, by the way, appeared more and more clearly, last week, as the brain-child of Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Committee, co-representative...
...Black Crook is, of course, only the latest chapter in the astonishing adventure of four gentlemen in Hoboken. For years the Three-Hours-For-Lunch-Club, a semi-mythical organization of Manhattan gourmets, has met occasionally in the New Jersey port, drawn across the Hudson by German cooking and the fact that Hoboken's beer has scarcely heard of the 18th amendment. It was on one of these trips that Cleon Throckmorton, scenic designer, discovered the old Rialto Theatre, buried under 70 years of dust. He interested Christopher Morley, novelist-playwright-essayist-colyumist ; Harry Wagstaff Gribble, playwright; and Conrad...