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...since become standard for all spark plugs. In 1911 Autocar started to specialize on trucks, now makes models from 2%½ ton to 15½ ton capacity. An Autocar feature was long the under-the-seat motor, now being adopted by other truck makers. One advantage is increased payload per inch of wheelbase, an important factor because of legal limitations on truck lengths. Short trucks are also easier to maneuver in cramped quarters, and Autocars are a favorite with coal dealers. Autocar has paid no dividend on its common stock since 1921, though in the War boom it once paid...
Today the loft on the Journal's roof houses 76 cooing Hearstlings. The birds can fly 50 m.p.h. with a 2-oz. payload, are used within a 50-mi. radius. Film negatives and copy written on onionskin paper are placed in aluminum capsules, fastened to the birds' backs with elastic. The Journal used 20 pigeons on the Crempa story, finds them useful in covering ship-news, trials, sports, outlying murders. From ships at Quarantine, 14 miles away, the Journal gets pictures of incoming celebrities in twelve minutes. Rival papers must wait two hours until the ship docks...
...previous record made by six Navy planes in mass flight in January 1934. Nearly eight years before, two Army flyers (Maitland & Hegenberger) had made the first crossing in a landplane in 25 hr. 50 min. The Clipper covered the 2,410 mi. in 17 hr. 45 min. with a payload of 8,000 letters which cost senders $1.09 each, and still had enough of its 3,000 gal. of gasoline left to fly another 1,000 mi. without difficulty...
...hangar which is large enough to hold several Douglas transports. XP3D-1 has two 830-h.p. Twin Wasp motors, 100-ft. wingspread, carries eight men, six machine guns, two tons of bombs. Although not armored. XP3D-1 tickled Navy officials, impressed them especially by carrying a 2,000-lb. payload on one engine...
...four days, took second place in the speed race, first in the handicap. It was hailed the world over as the race's real hero because it carried a commercial payload of mail & passengers. Month ago when it returned to Amsterdam 50,000 Netherlanders turned proudly out to do it honor...