Word: stacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shot fired in New York could be heard everywhere, and if an airplane designed by Engineer John Stack left New York at the same instant, the airplane would reach San Francisco how long after the sound of the shot...
...later the noise of the explosion would echo up San Francisco's Market Street and just 76 minutes after that the airplane would swish down upon San Francisco Bay, at a landing speed of 103 m. p. h. It would, that is. if Engineer John Stack knows how to use a wind tunnel and a slide rule...
...Engineer Stack works in the Langley Field. Va. laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Last week his latest study of high-speed flight was published in the initial issue of Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences. Engineer Stack concluded that a properly streamlined monoplane, using an existing type of engine (e. g. a 2,300-h. p. Rolls-Royce) would fly 544 m. p. h., or 72% as fast as the speed of sound. Such a ship would have a tubular fuselage 40 in. in diameter, a single tapered wing of 29 ft. span. Its surface would be perfectly...
...Brooklyn Naval Hospital where Captain Butler is commanding officer, he keeps a stack of logs and a collection of axes. Some axes are single-bitted, some double-bitted. Others are firemen's axes. The axes which Captain Butler uses are short-helved 3½ or 4 pounders. Longest convenient length for ax and handle is 16 in. A greater length interferes with the tumble of the ax on its way from hand to target...
Whether, in return, the gangsters got any real money was uncertain. Federal agents declared it was all bogus, but reports were current that the package contained at least $500 in bills wrapped around a stack of note paper...