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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racing machines ever seen. The Italian Alfa-Romeos and the German Mercedes and Auto Union, which are their match in every respect, have engines of over 400 h.p. in cars which weigh less than half the weight of a Chevrolet, and they have all exceeded a speed of 200 mi. per hour on the straight. They have had lavished on them every available facility of the manufacturers who build them in the way of engineering development and testing, it is said at government expense. They have the most advanced forms of supercharging, independent wheel suspension on all wheels, special transmissions...
Three-Wheeling Through Africa is the record of a motorcycle trip by two University of Nebraska graduates from Lagos, Nigeria, 3,800 mi. to the Red Sea. Written in an exclamatory prose and complete with descriptions of hardships and breakdowns through equatorial Africa it is the one book of all recent volumes on Africa most likely to set a reader puzzling as to whether the outlandish habits of natives in the eyes of whites are half as inexplicable as the habits of whites in the eyes of natives...
...lens shoots straight down, the other four at oblique angles. Distortion in scale caused by photographing at an angle is accurately corrected by a special instrument called a transforming printer. With one of the few nine-lens cameras Fairchild has built for surveying, an area of nearly 600 sq. mi. can be snapped at one exposure...
Some of the most spectacular uses of Fairchild cameras are by Fairchild itself. Fairchild Aerial Surveys will take on any job from photographing an industrial plant or large estate to mapping 68,000 sq. mi. of the Southwest's "dust bowl" as it is now doing for the Government. Power companies use the service in planning transmission lines, oil companies in surveying pipe-line right-of-way. Connecticut's highway department Fairchild mapped the whole State for some $20,000. The Connecticut survey still provides Fairchild with revenues through sale of enlargements to towns and individuals. For less...
...Johannesburg the big crowd, waiting tensely for the end of the 6,150-mi. junket, burst into cheers as the Scott-Guthrie plane slid in for a landing, winner of the $20,000 first prize in 52 hr., 56 min. The celebration was suddenly stilled by the news that Pilot Findlay and one of his companions had been killed in a crash at Abercorn, near Lake Tanganyika. Capitalist Schlesinger announced that he would donate the rest of the prize money ($30,000) to the dependents of the two dead airmen...