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...Dragons" & "Gents." Last week's rip through Sepulveda Boulevard (where 30 hot rodders condescended to mingle with jalopy racers) was just an impromptu "drag race," a hell-raising skirmish good for scaring the citizenry and testing the latest motor and fuel adjustments. The real hot rodders meet on weekends at the hard-packed sandy stretches in the dry lake beds of El Mirage, 106 miles northeast of Los Angeles. There, under careful racing conditions, hot-rod clubs known as the "Dragons," the "Cranks" or the "Gents" skim over the sand at speeds of 100 to 180 m.p.h...
Built on the general plan of the German V2, the Viking has one great difference. The V-2 is steered by graphite vanes set in the rocket blast, but the Viking's preset gyro instruments steer it by moving the whole rocket motor, playing the gas blast from side to side like water from a hose. After the fuel is gone, and the rocket is moving in the last of the atmosphere, small jets of nitrogen shot out of a pressure sphere keep it flying true. The proving of this new system, potentially superior to that...
Main Chance. At Pryor, Okla., when his boat capsized, J. E. Stamper lost his shirt, hat, shoes, three rods & reels and the outboard motor, but managed to hold on to the 50-lb. catfish he was trying to land...
...Dallas. Demoted and relieved of his duties within ten days after Pearl Harbor (as was his Navy counterpart, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel), Short ended a 40-year military career by retiring from the Army a few weeks later, worked through the war as a traffic engineer in the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dallas...
...Curtiss-Wright Corp., which has had its share of top echelon troubles during the past year, last week got a new president: Roy T. Hurley, director of manufacturing engineering at the Ford Motor Co. He was handpicked by Wall Street Investment Banker Paul V. Shields, who took over as Curtiss-Wright's chairman and chief executive officer last April. Shields wanted a man who could cut costs at Curtiss-Wright and lift its sales volume to a profitable level with an additional line of non-aviation products...