Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that paints Mrs. Bush's pictures, it has a morbid mind. Peace, most interesting canvas on view last week, showed the face of a drowned girl floating in water sprinkled with flowers, while over it hovers a weird bird with a very long beak and a tightly curled tail...
Within the coupe the driver steps on his gas throttle; the propeller whirls noisily and the queer craft scoots along the road. ... At the airport the driver fetches a monoplane wing, bolts it into place just abaft the cabin door. A fuselage tail, with control surfaces, is hooked onto the coupe's bustle-like stern (see cut). The driver (now a pilot) steps on the same gas throttle as before, steers with the same steering wheel, prods the same foot-brake, kites down the runway, climbs...
Along the highway rolls a grotesque vehicle like an automobile designer's bad dream. It looks like a coupe but has only three wheels, one centred in front. Its tail sticks out in a long bustle. The roof line of the coupe extends upward and rearward in curves like the back and neckline of a rearing seal. The "seal's" nose is the axis of a large propeller, shielded by a mesh guard...
That latest ship accounts for Granville's new importance, and answers an often-heard question: "What good are air races?" The latest Gee-Bee is of radical design, a fat bumblebee of a plane with small wings and an enormous tail. Wags dubbed it "the flying silo." Last week Zantford Granville began construction of a barrel-shaped transport ship patterned directly after the racer. Its wing is larger but its fuselage is barrel-shaped, its tail big, its nose fat to hold a 700-h.p. Cyclone. With pilot & seven passengers it is supposed to cruise 197 m.p.h...
Smalltown journalism is different. In a small community with only one or two newspapers, the editorial tail can wag the financial dog. Thus last week, all on account of the little Huntington, Ind. News (circulation 4,120), the three banks of Huntington were closed, business was crippled, a succession of legal holidays had to be declared by the Mayor...