Word: slant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a large wheel in the nose. Thanks to this forward wheel, DC-4 will always be in flying position, horizontal, tail up. No tail skid is necessary because the tail will never be near the ground. Passengers in sleeper planes will no longer be wakened by the rearward slant at each landing. The plane can take off relatively quickly, can "fly into" a landing. Blind landings will therefore be less dangerous, and, contrary to general belief, fields will not have to be extended for landing nor huge catapults employed to get DC-4 into...
...crowd was not disappointed. With gaping mouths it watched jumper after jumper slant through the air-eight with leaps of over 200 ft.-but it was 130-lb. Birger Ruud who made the spectators gasp with his prodigious and perfect jump of 216 ft., a whizzing arc ending with the wood slapping evenly on the hard snow...
...studded championship belt at Simpson's for $400. Evalyn Walsh McLean pawned her Hope Diamond there to get the $100,000 Gaston Means swindled from her as ransom for Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. The present William Simpson, much harassed by squabbles in the business, recently got a new slant from the play You Can't Take It With You. Last week William Simpson decided to leave pawnbroking, try merchandising a cleaning fluid Simpson's has always used. The new Simpson Jewelry Cleaner will have headquarters in Indianapolis...
...books. In the U. S. attempts to sell new books for less than $1 have come to grief in the past, and the newest and biggest cheap book venture, Modern Age Books, offering well-printed, well-edited new volumes on labor subjects, politics, economics, novels with a social slant and detective stories at 35? to 75?, is now being watched by old-line publishers to see if it can duplicate Penguin's success...
Photographs: of a slant-walled sharecropper's shanty near Rose Bud, Ark., the rusted-away body of a Ford roadster in the foreground: "I remember when that automobile was a mighty pretty thing to ride around...