Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summer of 1926 may come to be chronicled in histories as the beginning of an era when the U. S. actually leapt into the air, stayed there. No more sporadic gestures like the Shenandoah, the Hawaiian flights, but real laws, appropriations, Cabinet officers, potent metal planes, transcontinental airways mark the summer. Auspicious events...
...emperor of the highways had made in his conquest of the air. First of all, Edsel Ford explained the ship† that is to be standardized and produced, en masse, at Detroit. No air "jitney," it is a large ship, designed for commercial uses. It is an all-metal monoplane with three Wright-Whirlwind motors. It can carry a ton of freight, operating at a cost of 13.8 cents a mile. Its cruising radius is 2,500 miles. New, it costs the purchaser $37,000. It is planned to build 100 of these planes forthwith. After these are sold...
Later, dripping and smiling, no longer vague, he came up to her with a heavy metal object in his hand. "Here," he said, giving her "Rattlesnake," the bronze Indian's head executed by the late Artist Frederick Remington (valued at $3,500), which has stood since 1921 as the Metropolitan grass court trophy. Richards had won it twice before, and now, after a turbulent scene with long Will Tilden, it was his forever. Mrs. Richards was her happy self once more and they went gaily off for a birthday dinner...
...much for a trimotored all-metal Ford commercial monoplane...
...automobile catalogs and many more visual luxuries that are rushed today before the eyes of a sophisticated world. Frederick E. Ives was a Connecticut boy, who obtained a post at Cornell University in charge of photographic laboratory work. In 1879 he developed his first ideas for reproducing on a metal printing plate all the details, tone and "half tones" of a photograph, painting or drawing. In 1881 he produced the first printing blocks which, by printing one after the other with different inks, would reproduce a subject in its natural colors. Half Tones. The basis of half-tone printing...