Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's panjandrum park commissioner, who has sounded off on just about everything and been righteously rude to just about everybody, let loose his Mosaic thunders at a small-statured victim. A stunt radio program had persuaded one of its audience-Lieut. Colonel William M. Hendrix-to model a figure of his wife, his first attempt at sculpture (see cut) and present it to the park system. Said bad-tempered Moses: "I can think of nothing more unwelcome than your gift of the bronze, life-size statue of The Ideal American Wife. I say this unhesitatingly without having seen...
...true submarine: it went faster under water (25 knots) than on the surface (10 knots). It was able to overhaul any but the fastest surface ships and was capable of days-long submersion. Fortunately, this triumph of naval design came too late. When the war ended the only pilot model was on her trial...
...race to furnish a successor to the Douglas DC-3, workhorse of the airlines. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. last week got off to a flying start. It pocketed an order from American Airlines for 100 of its new Model 2405, largest number of planes a single airline has ever ordered at one time. Price...
American's order put Convair almost abreast of Baltimore's Glenn L. Martin Co., which so far has orders for 105 of its Model 202s. Convair turned the trick by offering its faster plane (300 miles an hour v. 270 for Martin's 202) to American for $180,000 each...
Funk. "With the earphones clamped like horns to the fat, sick face sagging into the small, dumpy body, he is the perfect model for a gargoyle. In color he is light green...