Word: leese
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yet there still remained many skeptics among business men. There were some few who voiced their belief that the only training for business was acquired at a tender age with a broom on an office or factory floor. There were some others who liked to employ college men but only...
That done, they hauled tarpaulin, chain and padlocks from their cabin and securely shrouded their motor from prying eyes. They had reached Langley Field in 6 hrs. 50 min. flying time and they took precautions because, underneath the chain-wrapped tarpaulin, was the first diesel-type motor ever used successfully...
No patents now are obtainable on diesels or their modifications, for plane-power or other drive.* Several manufacturers have been experimenting with diesel modifications for aircraft. Some of their representatives were at Langley Field last week, attending the fourth annual Engineering Research Conference conducted by the National Advisory Committee for...
Each exciting episode is filled with the madness, badness, and sadness in the lives of men who have lived intensely, who have drunk life to the lees. And the account of those lives is none the less interesting because they were lived in our own times, and under circumstances which...
"Judgement and courage," came the answer, "and that combined and balancing quality which may be called resourcefulness or 'gumption.'" When the visitor then remarked triumphantly, "You can't teach those," the response. Dr. Gay is reported to have said, was obvious: "Does West Point training help in making successful Army...