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...entire project, developed in the Stout Engineering Laboratories at Dearborn, is ostensibly Designer Stout's. But rumors in the industry persist that, if successful after six months trial, the plane will be taken over by Ford for large-scale production...
Thus a year ago spoke lanky, bushy-haired William Bushnell Stout, vice president of Stout Metal Airplane Co., designer and builder of Ford tri-motors (TIME, May 26). Airmen knew that Designer...
...Stout is not given to empty talk; they wondered what was up his sleeve. Last week Stout brought out of his sleeve a plane "that the public wants to buy"-a small two-seater monoplane distinctly and purposely suggestive of the famed old "Model T" Ford automobile. He named it the "Sky Car," admitting (hoping) that "the public, in its usual fashion, is likely ... to dub it something less formal." The Sky Car is a low-slung, truncated cabin suspended beneath a cantilever wing, with a tail assembly mounted at the end of an outrigger framework. The engine...
...books (Drift and Mastery, The Political Scene, Public Opinion, The Phantom Public, Men of Destiny, American Inquisitors, A Preface to Morals). And it is a paradox that his exercise of the Liberal Spirit has brought him to a position which most Liberals would excoriate. He began with a stout faith in the workings of popular democracy and the benefits of collective action. But his newspaper experience gradually bred in him a distrust (again, like Hoover's) of so-called Public Opinion, the judgments of the Mass. As editor of the World, public ignorance was his field. As idealist, organized public...
...Slack's Westinghouse task was to make more permeable windows. A film of glass would serve, were it stout enough to withstand the suction of the Lenard vacuum tubes. Dr. Slack rounds the end of his vacuum tube until it resembles the butt of a test tube. Then he blows the glass to gossamer thinness. A last step is to exhaust the tube. This creates a knob at the tube's end, a knob so frail that when shattered its glassy film floats in air. so stout that it is as strong as steel. Result is that a pressure...