Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called ''King of Jazz" is still living up to his rich tradition. Of course, Whiteman cannot be called the "King'' of hot jazz but there is no successful dance band in America, except for the "swing" types, which is not patterned on the Whiteman model and when Paul "gets hot" it cannot be denied that men like Jack Teagarden and Frank Trumbauer are peers on their respective instruments. Before you wrote the article in question you should have listened to Whiteman's recordings of the four hits from Anything Goes and his recent Itchola...
...tunnel, first in the U.S. The huge, upended cylinder is 15 ft. in diameter, has an observation platform surrounding it, a propeller to furnish a 50-m.p.h. blast of air. Some 300 pairs of eyes, including Col. Lindbergh's, fairly popped as they watched a 3-1 scale model demonstrate how an airplane behaves in the dreaded tailspin...
...model was balanced on a pin atop a long pole in the centre of the tunnel. Then an uprush of air whirled the little plane around until it was spinning free. What happened after the pole was removed left observers spellbound. Clockwork mechanism in the model's fuselage, set in advance, was timed to actuate the controls and set tiny lights flashing if the the cockpit. The model's ingenious efforts to recover from the spin began in orthodox fashion, with reverse rudder. Simultaneously, a green light flashed. Then a red light flashed, and the flippers flopped down...
When he was a little boy, Grover Loening built model planes of bent wire and toilet paper, powered them with rubber bands, begged his mother to remove the chandeliers so they could fly better. One day in 1908 his mother took him to see a real airplane fly. The plane was wrecked because the propeller had been put on backward. Grover Loening (pron. Loaning) decided then & there to become an aviation engineer...
...Procter & Gamble, Wrigley, General Foods, etc., etc. Biggest dispenser of premiums, with an annual appropriation of some $2,000,000. is supposed to be Quaker Oats Co. For four Quaker Oats box tops or one top and a dime, the company has lately distributed no less than 350,000 model airplanes made by Scrambled Eggs, Inc. A newcomer to the thingumabob business, Scrambled Eggs, Inc. took its name from its first product, an egg-shaped puzzle...