Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magnet. Last week he said that he was substituting a 40-in. disk, to get 20,000,000-voltage. In Professor Van de Graaff's machine moving paper belts brush static electricity upon huge metal balls. A modification, for which he already has a 1,000,000-volt model, will consist of a single metal ball and a metal-&-porcelain chain electron "conveyor," the whole contained in a vast steel vacuum tank. Expected voltage...
...living on relief funds since 1926 in miners' hovels at nearby Scots' Run. Once the property of Col. John Fairfax of Virginia, whose friend George Washington surveyed part of it, Reedsville was purchased by the Government last year from Farmer Richard M. Arthur. In its 50 white model cottages of the ready-made knock-down type are electric lights, modern plumbing, coal stoves, fireplaces, furnaces, double-decker beds and (by special request) bathtubs...
Long advocated by Will Durant and other writers of today, it school in practical government has actually been founded and will offer instruction "on location" in Washington next year with the cooperation of the federal government. A model "West Point" for public servants, the National Institute of Public Affairs will accept Juniors, Seniors, and graduate students specializing in political science and put them through an "internship" at the capital...
...from take-off to landing she climbed 8,000 ft., glided 10 mi. in descending circles after her fuel gave out, made a neat three-point landing in a cow-pasture. Built by Maxwell Bassett, 19, of Philadelphia, winner of the Admiral Moffett and Texaco Trophies for gasoline-powered model planes, Miss Philadelphia IV will have her record certified by the National Aeronautic Association which observed her flight...
...Ford was one of the few motor-makers who kept their prices unchanged when other leading companies were raising theirs last April. Now motormakers were reported to be bitterly regretting their action, and wanting to reduce prices again without losing face. Chevrolet pointed the way by announcing a new model with a few changes and a lower price. Terra-plane followed. Last week the new Chevrolet model was on display at the 61 General Motors' shows throughout the land. General Motors also slashed other Chevrolet prices as much as $50, Pontiac prices...