Word: hornet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a beaker without indigestion and stayed up so late at Fort Belvedere (their base of operations 22 mi. from London) that insomnia is out of the question. Last week, smart Prince George performed one of his rare public acts, set literary London by the ears, stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy. Taking as his text what he called "sex novels" Prince George announced: "I am sure that Dr. Samuel Johnson would have quickly sickened, as I have sickened, of novels which only exist on a disproportion ate interest in sex. I have read dozens of famous...
Thundering special trains carried Monsieur Andre Tardieu back and forth between Paris and Geneva (390 miles) by night last week. The cost was enormous, but not for a Great Man who is the premier of a Great Power. Busy as a hornet...
...Paris, darted zip back to the Geneva Conference where he arrived as Premier, Foreign Minister and Chief French Delegate, darted zip back to Paris and again zip to Switzerland. No U. S. traveling salesman travels harder. Frenchmen (most of whom are only as busy as bees) call their hornet-premier "Tardieu I'Americain." Pals are Andre Tardieu and Pierre Laval. They may sooner or later cease to be pals, for French politics has a way of rupturing personal friendships.* But up to last week Senator Laval and Deputy Tardieu had kept the Premiership of France bouncing back and forth...
...looked like an ordinary Wasp engine but which differed in an important respect: the engine had no carburetor, received fuel by direct injection into its cylinders. No more was heard of the experiment until last week when Pratt & Whitney announced that long-time tests had proved successful: a carburetorless Hornet engine of 525 h. p. had been installed in a Boeing mail plane for actual service. Advantages: direct fuel injection eliminates all carburetion troubles including the danger of ice formation in the carburetor during winter operation. Also, like the Diesel, it permits the use of cruder and less inflammable fuels...
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. for 100 Hornet-B engines...