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Beautiful Music. Now the 500 was really in his blood. He kept coming back, but for years his luck was bad. In 1931 Shaw showed up with a tiny (wheelbase: 104 in., piston displacement: 156 cu. in., weight: 1,600 lbs.) supercharged special, built by Augie Duesenberg. The sound of that little engine winding up, Shaw remembered later, "was the most beautiful music my ears had ever heard. With the engine turning 6,800 r.p.m., the supercharger was turning almost 38,000 r.p.m., and making more noise than a room full of women...
...Harvard Music Department is particularly fortunate in having Thompson and Walter H. Piston, Jr. '24 the former on both undergraduate and grad
...commercial aviation industry last week, the ceiling looked unlimited. Pan American World Airways announced a $110 million order with Douglas Aircraft for 40 of its speedy (365 m.p.h.) piston-engined DC-7s, the biggest order ever placed by an airline with a single manufacturer. Two days later, Northwest Airlines ordered another 14 Douglas planes costing $28 million. Together, the two boosted Douglas' backlog to 156 planes, worth more than $500 million, the highest figure in its history. At rival Lockheed, orders were on hand for $225 million worth of Constellations...
...Douglas and Lockheed orders meant that U.S. airlines have decided to hold off on jet transports, probably until 1960. It will take at least five, possibly seven, years for them to amortize their costly new fleets of piston-engined craft, some of which will not even be delivered until 1957. Furthermore, there is little likelihood that a U.S. jet transport will be on the market for some time to come. In Washington last week, Air Force Assistant Secretary Roger Lewis told Boeing Airplane Co., which had hoped to turn out a commercial version of its giant KC-135 jet tanker...
...Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation for permission to buy 19 U.S.-built Douglas DC-7C airliners for its transoceanic routes. BOAC and its Chairman Sir Miles Thomas, who once placed their bets on the ill-fated Comet jet transports, now want a modified version of the piston-engined DC-7 of U.S. airlines, enlarged to carry 68 passengers nonstop across the Atlantic. Cost: $42.7 million...