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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once upon a time automobiles Metal is now displacing wood in aircraft as it has done in the automobile. The Aeromarine Company has built for the first time in United States aviation, a flying boat hull made entirely of duralumin. The use of this metal, which is as strong as ordinary commercial steel but only one-third as heavy, resulted in a saving in weight over wood, and will effectively prevent soaking of water and rapid deterioration which accompany wooden construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Metal vs. Wood | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

Seventy cents an hour was the minimum wage fixed by the U. S. Railroad Labor Board for shopmen: machinists, boilermakers, blacksmiths, electricians, sheet metal workers, carmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Shopmen Want More | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

...Stumm brothers, also ex-mine owners in Lorraine. They still own metal factories in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Industrialists | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

...Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. He owns the famous Krupp works conjointly with his wife, Bertha Krupp. The Krupp factory is now busy manufacturing innumerable varieties of metal articles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Industrialists | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

...airplane incorporates many unique features of construction. It is built almost entirely of metal, which is rapidly superseding wood in the construction of aircraft. Each wing, instead of having two main strength members known as " spars," has a number of such spars which divide up the load between them. Since one or more of these spars can be pierced without the entire wing failing, invulnerability to shrapnel fire is secured. Another valuable feature is the wing cooling or radiation system. Instead of the ordinary automobile type of radiator, which increases the air resistance, the cooling water is pumped through small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: General Mitchell's Smash | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

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