Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Break, Break, Break. In Saginaw Bay, Mich., John Sanborn, out for some ice fishing, stood by helplessly as 1) his car fell through the ice; 2) a wrecker sent to the rescue fell through the ice; 3) a curious pilot landed his plane, which fell through...
Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), which has a synthetic-fuel pilot plant at Baton Rouge, is placing its long-run major bet on gasoline from coal. This week, Standard and the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. broke ground at Library, Pa. for their pilot plant to gasify coal. The next step, a fairly simple one, will be to make petroleum from the gas. Said E. V. Murphree, president of the Standard Oil Development Co.: "Enough oil can be made from the nation's known coal reserves, alone, to last the U.S. for 1,000 years...
Harvard may have no football coach, but a pilot lack has not kept the Crimson line-up from doing a little off-season scrimmaging. Chip Gannon, 180-pound wingback, muscled his way onto the floor of the Hotel Somerset's Balinese Room Thursday night and into the arms of Betty Anne Grove, 100-pound chanteuse...
...conference, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at the Faculty Club, will discuss three main points in connection with the present Seminar: the Salzburg Seminar as a pilot experiment in international education, administration and finance, and cooperation among student-initiated projects in International education...
...centerboard sailboat was molded in one piece of Fiberglas. From his Tulsa factory, Gar Wood Jr. flew in two 16-ft. speedboats pressed from a plastic called "Nautilite." Other novelties: seat cushions with phosphorescent side-strips, non-tipping gasoline cans, an automatic pilot for outboard motors, a mechanism which automatically frees snagged outboard propellers...