Word: handley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twin tail of the Lockheed 14H-resembling from the rear a letter H with two vertical tail fins and rudders attached to a wide horizontal stabilizer-is designed to increase controllability and stability in flight. Savoia-Marchetti, Sikorsky. Consolidated, Handley Page. Mitsubishi all have models with similar twin tails. Knowing that if "flutter"-vibration so violent that it shakes metal like a piece of cloth -developed anywhere it would be in the tail structure, Lockheed engineers and Chief Test Pilot Marshall Headle worked for months to eliminate the possibility, finally satisfied themselves and the B. A. C. that they...
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...satisfaction of belittling their new Chief of Staff as an upstart. Lord Gort is a sixth Viscount, an old Harrovian, a member of the most exclusive club in the world, the Royal Yacht Squadron, and grandson of famed Robert Smith Surtees, author of the fox hunters' bible Handley Cross. It also happens that he is a professional soldier of great ability, holds the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military decoration...
...Daughters of a German mining engineer who arrived in the U. S. eleven years ago, they started to swim at Manhattan Beach in 1928 when their father got a job as night clerk at a nearby hotel. A lifeguard observed their talent, brought them to the attention of Leo Handley, Women's Swimming Association coach. They have an older sister who cannot swim. Phenomenally pretty, they use much lipstick, wear clothes made by Mrs. Rompa. retire at 10 p. m. every night. Both specialize in the backstroke, of which they are among the ablest exponents in the world...
Bell In Seattle, investigating a subscriber's report that her telephone bell never rang but that she had learned to answer the telephone when her dog howled in the back yard, Telephone Repairman Roy Handley found the dog chained to the lead-in wires, causing a short circuit which shocked the dog whenever the number was called...