Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three strokes better than the score Bobby Jones registered to win the 1927 British Open on that course-a total good enough to have won any championship ever played at ancient St. Andrews. Hailed as the greatest discovery since Jones, Jim Bruen, who weighs 200 Ib. and can make an eagle 3 look simple on a 530-yd. hole, was promptly named on the British Walker Cup team the day before his 18th birthday-along with five Englishmen, two Scots...
...with a bang. Thirty-four thousand of their 93,000 relief cases (each "case" represents about three people) got, instead of monthly checks, baskets doled out by Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. A month's provisions for each family of four consisted of: 2 lb. of dried beans, 4 Ib. of butter, 4 Ib. of prunes, 20 Ib. of cabbage, 8 stalks of celery, 15 Ib. of oranges, 2 Ib. of rice, 2 Ib. of potato flour, 24½ Ib. of wheat flour, 8 lb. of skim milk...
...specifications. And 18 months in the aviation business is a long ime. Early in 1937 T. W. A. and Pan American ordered nine Boeing 307s (Flying Fortresses with transport fuselages), which weighed just under the contract limit. Indications now are that the finshed 307 will weigh 45,000 Ib. Last week American, having waited out the 18 months, was on the verge of tumbling for six 307s. The Boeings will be ready for airline service before the Douglas plane. T. W. A., Pan American and American all protest that they are still behind the co-operative idea, but Mr. Patterson...
...carry the first batch of mail at the new rate from England to the East, Imperial Airways chose a Quantas pilot, 40-year-old G. U. ("Guppy") Allan, renowned in Australia as an opener of new air routes. So heavy were Pilot Allan's mailbags (8,000 Ib.) that passengers were transferred to another ship. Imperial Airways looks forward this year to extending its 20,000-mile system by a North Atlantic service to Canada. Still in the dim future is the completion of its empire world circuit with a route across the Pacific between Vancouver and Hong Kong...
...Seversky Super-Clipper,'' at least on paper, would fly farther faster than any other, carry nearly twice the payload P. A. A. asked for. Its specifications: weight about 250,000 Ib.; five propellers driven by eight motors developing 18,400 h. p.; cruising speed a flat 250 m.p.h.; a wing 250 ft. long and triple fuselage accommodating 120 passengers, crew of 16, a dining room for 50, observation deck, cocktail bar, promenade, 70 toilets and a lifeboat. Pontoons serve also as shock absorbers, retract in flight into the hulls of the two main fuselages. The whole ship...