Word: solider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about 130 r.p.m., according to their speedometer. The vanes vibrated. To smooth that out he idled his motor for five seconds. Then he released his brakes, sped up the motor again, taxied to his takeoff. The vanes were turning smoothly at 120 r. p. m. and creating a practically solid disc-shaped plane surface reflecting air downward. His take-off was slow...
Runabouts, hydroplanes, outboards all had their events at Red Bank. In a final grand free-for-all for a special trophy molded from a solid gold brick, presented by Barren Collier, two drivers of skittish little outboards, encouraged by the result of the gold cup race, entered their craft on the slim hope that the hydroplanes would all tip over, fall apart or blow...
Rubber. On 114 acres of land at Akron, Ohio are manufactured some 45,000 automobile tires and 35,000 pairs of rubber boots and shoes every day. On 96 acres of land at Watertown, Mass, are manufactured some 3,500 automobile tires, 150 solid truck tires and 75,000 pairs rubber boots and rubber soled shoes daily. The two will be united. B. F. Goodrich Co. of Akron last week arranged to take over all the assets & liabilities of Hood Rubber Co. of Watertown, paying one share of Goodrich for every two shares of Hood outstanding...
...Hillsdale, Mich., one A. N. Thorpe working on his house, found between two walls a solid honeycomb, six feet high, three feet thick...
...dream begins with a dreamlike name, "Le Palais de France." Its solid basis is a trapezoidal piece of Manhattan Island, 200 feet in shortest dimension, 498 feet in longest, just north of Columbus Circle, comprising the entire block in which the Century Theatre now stands. On this plot the dream will rise, garnished in every one of its 65 stories with the glories of modern French art and architecture. There is even a whisper that its walls may be of glass...