Word: tail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Irene Castle McLaughlin started the rumor. In a letter to the Chicago Tribune, the onetime dancer complained bitterly of cruelty to show horses. Three and five gaited hacks carry their tails high in the show ring. This unnatural elevation is effected by tail sets affixed while show horses are at leisure. "Hideous instruments of torture," complained Mrs. Castle...
...tail set is an iron and leather device, forcing the tail upward. When first applied "it causes considerable pain," said Dr. George McKillip, Chicago veterinarian, "but after the first use there is nothing cruel or painful about...
Bremen Gaped. Above Bremen, Germany, an airplane was flying swiftly backward. Leslie Edgar Reed of the U. S. foreign service investigated, cabled the U. S. department of Commerce a description. The plane, thick-winged, carried its tail in front, preventing somersault after a bad landng...
...Cricklewood Airdrome (near London) a plane slid lazily along the air, slower, stalling; the lazy tail began to drop. Such weary antics precede the tail spin, horrible whirl to death of many an aviator, among the heaviest hazards of aviation. Spectators thrilled. But the plane above Cricklewood did not spin. Instead it hung in the air under perfect lateral control, nosed down a trifle, regained flying speed...
Passenger, engines, crew of the actual ship will be stored in a 180-foot "single wing," which is three yards thick. Two motors will be held idle for emergencies. The fuselage is long and slim, chiefly a strut to hold the tail. But before the actual ship is built, the model must be well tested in a wind tunnel, i. e.-a a stout tunnel built for aviation model tests. So terrific is the suction of the propeller set at one end to furnish air currents, that a man standing in the tunnel would be swept into the whirling blades...