Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business is now almost wholly dominated by U.S. manufacturers, but the 'British hope soon to get their share. Last week Vickers-Armstrong showed off its Viscount 700, in most respects a conventional-looking craft. The novelty was the four engines. They carried ordinary propellers on their noses, but instead of being blunt and thick, the Viscount's engines stuck out ahead of the wing like half-cigars (see cut). On these slender "turboprop" engines Britain is pinning her commercial airplane hopes...
Turboprops are a sort of halfway mark between piston engines and the turbojets that drive fighter airplanes. Their inside works are very like the jets', but instead of putting all their propulsive energy into a blast of hot gas shot out the tailpipe, they extract some of it by means of a turbine set in the blast and use it to drive a conventional propeller. This compromise gives turboprops some advantage. They are simpler and lighter than piston engines, and they burn cheap, nonexplosive kerosene instead of high-octane gas. Unlike turbojets, they do not have...
...nezed Dorothy Leigh Sayers, 56, is best known to readers in the U.S. and Britain as a crack writer of whodunits (Busman's Honeymoon, Murder Must Advertise, etc.). But what really interests Anglican Sayers is religion. Two years ago she announced: "I have given up writing crime stories. Instead, I have engaged in a four-year task of translating Dante's Divine Comedy...
...their New Britain, Conn, plant last week., appliance-makers Landers, Frary & Clark (Universal Appliances) were busy with a new vacuum cleaner which had one radical change from their old model-the price. Instead of retailing at $79.95, the new model sold...
...Herberger's chain of seven small-town stores and Butler Bros., largest U.S. wholesaler of general merchandise and also operator of 170 retail stores. Neither the Herberger hustle nor the magic of the Du Pont name could get the oldtime profits out of the 62-year-old company. Instead, Butler Bros, lost $4.3 million before tax carrybacks in 1947, squeezed out a small profit last year, but dropped $287,632 in 1949's first quarter. Its stock fell fcom 15 to 7 in two years...