Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experimental DC-4 which will take to the air next week is really the fourth DC-4. First was a "mock-up"-a full-sized wooden replica, exact in every detail, for a study of space requirements, load placement, general structure. DC-4 No. 2 was a perfect scale model, with 8 ft. 3 in. wingspan. This Lilliputian transport "flew" through 1,100 hours and $25,000 worth of wind tunnel tests at the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Caltech. Third stage was a Spanish Inquisition by Douglas engineers, who systematically squeezed, banged, shook, stretched, heated, froze, destroyed every part, every...
...last event, the 11 contestants duelled with pistols. Two by two, they marched away from their paper effigies and at ten paces turned and fired, the one at the heart of the other's figure. Hall sent five leaden pellets through the carboard heart of Hinckley's model in the final thereby winning the meet...
...least of mankind's fanatic fractions is that vanishing fraternity of motorists who still drive a Model T. Not the kast among them is septuagenarian Ernest A. Franke. a retired baker of Washington, D. C. One day last week Mr. Franke and his 1921 Ford chattered down Pennsylvania Avenue, wheeled into the semicircular White House driveway, and astounded White House police by pausing hard by the Executive Office...
...visible working model" for Catholics throughout the U. S., a Press Relations Committee was formed in Manhattan, its membership representing 14 national Catholic groups like the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Daughters of America, Fordham Alumni, etc. The committee divided into subcommittees, one to watch for "anti-Catholic propaganda" in each important newspaper and magazine, with a view to beginning negotiations if a publication persists in being biased. Father Toomey denies that the aims of the Press Relations Committee resemble those of the Legion of Decency. Declared he: "The function of these committees is not primarily one of protest or criticism...
...Princeton clubs will take care of the meeting free of charge over Friday night and will provide meals. The conference will break up Saturday night after the delegates have drawn up a model platform and finished a banquet...