Word: loads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generation Englishmen have played with the idea of mounting one airplane on the back of another on the theory that if they could be separated in midair it would "solve the fundamental problem of launching long-range aeroplanes with a full load . . . eliminate the take-off altogether." In 1916, an air force lieutenant named Day crudely accomplished this by lifting a Bullet scout plane from the wing of a Porte flying boat. Since then blue-eyed, middle-aged Major Robert Hobart Mayo, Cambridge graduate, airplane designer, and technical adviser to Imperial Airways, has worked on the idea. Backed by Imperial...
...pickaback plane, or "Short-Mayo Composite Aircraft," consists of two seaplanes-a small, swift, long-range ship securely locked on the back of a big short-range "mother" flying boat. The top plane, named Mercury, has a 73-ft. wing span, weighs 20,000 lb. loaded, is powered with four air-cooled 16-cyl. Napier-Half ord 340-h.p. engines, carries a total payload of 1,000 lb. (but no passengers) 3,500 mi. at 160 m.p.h. Its mother beneath, Maia, weighs 40,000 lb. loaded, has four big 9-cyl., 960-h.p. Bristol "Pegasus" radial engines, a wing span...
...fane the closest thing to a family cathedral in the world today. He donated much of the $14,000,000 it has cost; he dismissed its architects some years ago, has since supervised the unhurried firing of its glass, forging of its metals, hewing of its timbers. Currently a load of teak logs for the cathedral are aging at the bottom of the Pitcairn swimming pool...
Well did such a request suit a budget message. Congressmen often load an important appropriation bill with pork, leaving the President the choice of taking bad with good, or nothing. With the item veto, now possessed by the Governors of most of the States, he could separate the sheep from the porkers. Proposed on a non-partisan basis, the item veto seemed to have a fair chance of passage-an event which would make life measurably easier for any President who undertakes to balance the budget...
...quarters have yet been provided for the guardedly anonymous editorial staff, who are still confined in file-cramped cubicles on three floors of the old Times building. Those ancient floors are joined at each end by a winding staircase and the Times's famed lift-"Full load, 3 persons"-in which, legend has it, the great Editor Dawson was once marooned between floors for an hour, copy for an important "leader" article quivering in his hand...