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Word: taile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the board-three B. A. C. men headed by Miller C. Foster of the Department of Commerce, and Montana Aeronautics Commissioner Fred B. Sheriff -issued a preliminary report. Northwest's veteran pilot, Nick Mamer, was completely exonerated. Helpless at the controls after part of the tail structure of his plane "fluttered" off, Pilot Mamer could do nothing but await death as his ship plunged to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Tail Trouble | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...twin tail of the Lockheed 14H-resembling from the rear a letter H with two vertical tail fins and rudders attached to a wide horizontal stabilizer-is designed to increase controllability and stability in flight. Savoia-Marchetti, Sikorsky. Consolidated, Handley Page. Mitsubishi all have models with similar twin tails. Knowing that if "flutter"-vibration so violent that it shakes metal like a piece of cloth -developed anywhere it would be in the tail structure, Lockheed engineers and Chief Test Pilot Marshall Headle worked for months to eliminate the possibility, finally satisfied themselves and the B. A. C. that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Tail Trouble | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...date the President's business conferences have not, so far as anyone knows, produced a single concrete result save that a number of important people have been able to see with their own eyes that Franklin Roosevelt is not equipped with two horns and a tail. Washington was last week agreed that so far as meeting the problem of recession is concerned, the Administration is just as planless as it was two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Co-Operacy | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Reverting to the simile of his Jackson Dry speech-that $600,000,000 of holding company money controlling $13,000,000,000 of utilities is like a four-inch tail wagging a a6-in. dog-Franklin Roosevelt summed it up for the reporters: Mr. Willkie simply wished to legalize the four-inch tail for all eternity. The President would never agree to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Amputating Tails | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

From Paul Leach of the Chicago Daily News came a muffled crack: "He's cutting off the tail right behind the ears." The President did not hear it. In high good humor he concluded the conference, turned to his next important appointment of the day: a meeting with Business bigwigs to discuss co-operation between Government and Business (see col. 3). After hearing such an effusion of Presidential sentiments, the reporters retired amazed and mystified. Even the "death sentence" of the Holding Company Act permits first degree holding companies under certain conditions. Abolition of all holding companies would break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Amputating Tails | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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