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...next hole, climbing out of a bunker from which her ball had not climbed, she ran her fingers through her hair, pressed her wrists against her temples and with a sigh said softly, "Oh, dear me." Then she went over and congratulated Miss Collett. Next day Collett beat Mrs. Opel Hill, and the day after that took the finals and her fourth national title by beating plump, blonde Mrs. Harry Pressler, who asked people particularly not to call her Mrs. Harry Pressler but Leona...
Fritz von Opel, youthful and imaginative automobile maker of Frankfort, Germany, after two unsuccessful attempts rose 250 feet in the air, flew six miles to an airplane given momentum not by a motor but by rockets. It was the first rocket-plane flight. Just before he started he had explained: "Before one attempts to fly to the moon, he must jump over the first milestone...
Rockets have already been used for motive power. A rocket car driven by Fritz von Opel attained 120 m. p. h. in eight seconds (TIME, June...
...wings. Most scientists with lunar leanings have therefore pondered shooting themselves moonwards in rockets. Herr Oberth, bearing in mind the desirability of returning and landing on the earth, cogitated combining plane and rocket, using the latter for propulsion of the former as has been done experimentally at the Opel works in Germany. The core of his cogitations concerned the materials to be fused to attain speed in and out of Earth's atmosphere. He described two kinds of fuses-one using hydrogen, the other of alcohol-which he calculated would drive a plane...
Perhaps hardest hit by the merger, however, was the German motor car industry which, with its largest unit (Opel) already a General Motors affiliate, and with one of its most menacing invaders (Ford) now backed by the resources of Germany's largest company, appeared more than ever unable to hold its own against U. S. competition. One outstanding difference between the General Motors-Opel and the Ford-I. G. F. arrangements was that General Motors bought into Opel, whereas I. G. F. bought into Ford. To discuss these international operations in warlike terms, the Ford-I. G. F. purchase...