Word: modeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week the boy, Harold Hatlestad, Minneapolis high-school student, appeared with 30 other youngsters and 30 model machines at the University's Chemistry Auditorium. It was the annual Originality Contest (sponsored by Professor Akerman) of the Twin City Boys' Air- plane Model Makers Club. There were designs ranging from a maple leaf type offered by Clarence Maihori, a Japanese, to a futuristic conception of 21st Century transport submitted by Robert Hillberg. Harold Hatlestad's rotor ship took first place...
...Hatlestad model has a conventional propeller, but in place of wings there are freely spinning horizontal rotors 14 in. long and 2 in. in diameter. The rotor is composed of two semicircular vanes on an axis-in cross section shaped like the letter S. As the plane moves forward, air pressure causes the rotor to revolve backward. That action, combined with the forward movement, produces low pressure on top of the rotor, increased pressure (lift) on the bottom. If the motor should quit the rotor continues to spin in descent, the lift force stretching the plane's course into...
...banks. Dark rumors also circulated of a struggle for power between Ford, General Motors, Chrysler. Meanwhile General Motors, flinging defiance in the face of moratoria. announced a new Chevrolet "standard" six slightly smaller than the present six. to sell, they promised, at a lower price than any other standard-model six. Minus fancy gadgets, the car will be on display the end of this week...
Another activity in which the Council will participate, Knowles announced, is the Model London Economic Conference, to be held at Dartmouth from Friday, April 4, to Sunday, April 16, under the auspices of the Green International. The Conference will be directed by Edmund E. Day, director of Social Science for the Rockefeller Foundation and Hoover appointee to the Preparatory Commission of the London World Economic Conference to be held next summer...
...pedagogy. Last week he announced that next autumn he will open a school for boys. He has acquired "Oakington," the 550-acre estate of the late Commodore Leonard Richards on Chesapeake Bay near Aberdeen, Md. Designed by Stanford White, it contains 25 rooms and a ballroom. Adjacent are a model farm, a garden with venerable boxwood, enough tenant houses for 100 boys and faculty members. The school will be "progressive," carry learning-by-doing to its extreme. Grey-haired at 49, Major Garey talks of his plans, sometimes dreamily with closed eyes, sometimes in dynamic barks. Says...