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...laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field, Va. Planned for completion within a year, the 154-ft. tunnel will be made of reinforced concrete with steel-plated walls. Through its test chamber, 8-ft, in diameter, fans driven by 8,000-h.p. motors will hurl a 500-m.p.h. hurricane. Said the committee in a special report to President Roosevelt: "Airplane speeds upward of 500 m.p.h. are attainable, but knowledge is lacking as to the natural laws governing air flow above 200 m.p.h. . . . This wind tunnel is the greatest need in aviation today...
...would not shave until he won the championship. He now has a bushy brown beard, four inches long. He practices against his wife, whom experts consider a more accomplished wrestler than her husband. Last week, matched with Joe Savoldi, onetime Notre Dame footballer, who was not allowed to hurl himself at his opponent feet first as is his custom, Man Mountain Dean gave a miserable account of himself. After three minutes Savoldi butted his adversary head-first but below the belt, lost the bout on a foul. Carried out of the ring by three ushers and a policeman, while...
Finland's war was a savage, desperate, last-ditch fight in 1919 to hurl Russian Bolsheviks back from her beloved lakes. Finnish valor perhaps saved pink & socialist Scandinavia from going red. Exhausted though victorious, Finns obtained from the U. S. Congress credits for grain and other foodstuffs, ran $8,281,900 into debt. Three years later when President Harding offered to fund all Europe's War debt on the basis of '"capacity to pay''-payments to be made over 62 years-Finland was the first state to send a delegation which signed on Washington...
...Emperor's Private Ambassador." Overshadowing all else in Chinese minds last week was the appalling question whether Japan would confine herself to Jehol (which she terms a renegade province of her puppet state, Manchukuo) or would hurl her armed might upon Tientsin, Peiping and other key cities of China proper...
...impassively, "my wife died. . . . Jehol can be defended and must and will be defended. . . . Japan and Manchukuo cannot control Jehol without taking my Capital and we are certain we can hold out here for at least six months. . . . Airplanes never capture any objective and we shall be able to hurl back the Japanese infantry. Tanks, armored cars and all such things will be useless in Jehol which is mostly without highways and mountainous...