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...later efforts undoubtedly are lost to history, but in 1871 a helicopter of obscure fate was built in France by M. A. Penaud. Experiments were made with slight success in 1905 by the Dane, Ellehammer; in 1906 in France by the Brazilian, Santos-Dumont, in 1907 by M. Bréguet. By 1923 Austria had its Petroczy; Great Britain its Brennan; France its Damblanc, Oemichen and Pescara; Spain its la Cierva. In the U. S., meanwhile, Henry Berliner, Baltimore aircraft builder, had spent a fortune in a decade's experiment, and Rumanian Professor Georges de Bothezat was conducting researches at McCook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Vertical Flight | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

After a meeting in support of M. Raoul Sabatir, Nationalist (Millerand- Poincaré Party) candidate in the Municipal elections, a number of young Nationalists walked into a Communist guet-apens (ambush). Many shots rang out, three Nationalists fell dead, eight others were wounded, two mortally. The Nationalists were unarmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Un Guet-Apens | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

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