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...Machine. An autogiro has a fuselage and tail surfaces like that of the conventional airplane; also it has the usual motor & propeller in its nose, and uncommonly wide landing gear. But in place of a wing is an abortive stub with upturned tips, affixed as on a low-wing monoplane, to provide lateral stability, to carry the ailerons and to provide a mounting for the undercarriage. The real supporting surfaces (i. e. wings) are embodied in four great rotating blades, or vanes, affixed to an upright tripod. It is this rotor that gives the ship its windmill appearance and that...
Senator Walsh, the Senate's most famed and feared inquisitor, warned him he was risking the fate of Oilman Harry Sinclair, who went to prison for contempt of the Senate. But the Bishop contended stub bornly, sometimes waving his crutch in anger, that this Committee had no authority to expose anyone's political activities. He read aloud Supreme Court utterances which, he said, denied all committees the right to make "fruitless inquiries into citizens' personal affairs." He protested: ''This appears to me to be an effort to attack me and to impair my influence exactly...
Beard In Hoboken, long-bearded Kupper Bier, 109, died of pneumonia plus the shock of burns sustained in a beard-fire which sprang up when he lit a cigar stub...
Walking back to his hotel, he was surrounded and followed by a friendly curious crowd. He looked as if he were leading a parade. Casually he threw away the stub of the cigar he was smoking. The crowd wavered, broke, dove into the gutter for the treasured butt. Citizen Coolidge halted to watch men, women and children scramble and scratch, kick and slap. A woman arose from the scrimmage with the remains of the cigar. As she dropped it into her handbag, Citizen Coolidge grinned his amusement...
...autogiro which he flew last week is his latest model. The fuselage is 16 ft. long, flat and rather wide. Stub wings with upturned tips extend from each side of the fuselage. The tail structure is 8 ft. wide and has boxed double rudders, double fins, an upper (elevator) and a lower (stabilizer) tail plane. When the tail planes are deflected they meet and act as a single plane. The tractor propeller is 81 in. over all and operated by a Genet-Major five-cylinder radial motor which develops 100 h.p. at 2,400 r.p.m...