Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vertical wind tunnel through which smoke is poured around a suspended plane model, to expose the tricks of air currents causing the dread tailspin. Photographs indicated that, the prime obstacle to recovery from a spin is the "blanketing" of the rudder by the horizontal tail surfaces...
Much of Ford's 1931 loss must have been caused by preparing for 1932 models. Last week Automotive Daily News took the nebulous Ford figures, brewed from them the fact that on its Model A the company made $11,250,459 plus any dividends paid to the three holders of its 172,645 shares-Mr. & Mrs. Ford and Edsel Ford...
...road builders in 1848 let a charge of explosive detonate prematurely. The explosion drove a crowbar through the left side of his head. He was then 25 lived twelve years and nine months longer, showed no physical impediments, but did develop an abnormal truculence. The museum has a plaster model of his head, and the actual crowbar...
...confused with the underslung model sent by General Dawes to Mayor Herriot, who has smoked the contraption once or twice (see front cover). Once or twice General Dawes has also smoked the Herriot briar he received as a return gift. * Party names mean next to nothing in France. The Socialists, though great mouthers of Marxism, are almost as moderate in practice as Socialist James Ramsay MacDonald. The Radical Socialists, instead of being more radical than the Socialists are in fact only Liberal...
Unwanted by U. S. airway operators because of costly upkeep and a 30% tariff should they buy her, DO-X has no job waiting in Europe. An expensive experiment, she served as a model for her sister ships, DO-X II & III, younger but just as big. They fly for Il Duce's subsidized transport company, Aeroitaliano, will probably lug passengers between Genoa and Britain's Gibraltar...