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...their running gear in a manner which he and several partners claimed was brand-new for railroad cars. Invented by William Van Dorn and Dr. F. C. Lindvall of California Institute of Technology, who have been working on the cars for the past two years in an abandoned Northrup Aviation hangar, the coaches are sprung on a "pendulum" principle by which four heavy vertical coil springs above each of the car's four axles fit into pockets in the body of the car (see cut). As the top of these is above the coach's low centre...
...Northrup Doubles...
...Alex Northrup, captain, is one of the best milers in the East. Hampered all last year by various illnesses, he bloomed into full flower July 10 when he was clocked at 4:19. He has several times shown himself able to double up on the mile and the half-mile. In the Yale meet he won the half in 1:55.4 after running the mile. He should well carry the banner of his team this year...
...outspoken man, Tom Girdler expressed himself freely on the situation last week. He insisted that 21,000 of his 50,000 workers were still on the job, that his mills were shipping 8,000 tons of steel daily. Reporters asked about a suit started by Stockholder Robert W. Northrup of Toledo, who complained that Republic's officers had spent $1,000,000 on arms & ammunition not required in the steel business. "He's crazy," laughed Tom Girdler. But hadn't the company laid in arms in anticipation of a strike? "I wouldn't say in anticipation...
...sporting and commercial airplanes which Mr. Cuse had already gathered and was knocking down for shipment at North Beach, L. I. airport. The ships, perhaps of greater value to souvenir hunters than military flyers, included such famed oldsters as Laura Ingall's Lockheed Orion, Powell Crosley's Northrup, seven discarded American Airlines Vultees and Harry Richman's Lady Peace. Most of the rest of the Vimalert shipment consisted of 411 motors and enough parts to make 150 more. All of the disassembled stuff had been sold as unfit for further duty by the U. S. Army...