Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most volatile of gases) and keeping it liquid-a scientific feat first accomplished 23 years ago. The jubilant men who did it were staff members of the U. S. Bureau of Standards-Drs. George Kimball Burgess (director), Hobert Cutler Dickinson and Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde and two aides. In cylinders stout enough to withstand the tremendous expansion of gases they compressed air to liquid ( - 310º F.). Liquid air helped liquefy hydrogen ( - 432.4º F.); liquid hydrogen helped freeze helium to a colorless liquid at -456º F. That temperature is less than 4º F. above Absolute Zero, unrealizable goal...
...cures." Her apostles searched them at the wooden gate for weapons. The unarmed entered, had a pinch of salt dropped in a palm, which they lapped up and made a wish for Mother Catherine's help. "Saints" lined up the applicants. The file approached the altar where stood stout Mother Catherine, adorned by a white headdress and a starched apron with the word MOTHER embroidered in red across its bib. On a side table was a huge brown bottle of warm castor oil, which she had blessed, and a bowl of quartered lemons, "taste-killers." To each one with...
...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...
...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...
Said Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. who, with his wife, was the first "outsider" to fly in the Sky Car: "Bill Stout told us it would become but a matter of two or three hours for anyone who drove an automobile to learn to fly [the plane]. . . . Speed is 100 m. p. h. You can get 24 miles to the gallon of gasoline and stay in the air nearly five hours with a tank full. It will first sell in the neighborhood of $1,500; and might be purchased within a few months for less than...