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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 is a 75-h. p. pusher, with the propeller whirling between the members of the outrigger. The ship is all-metal, blue and silver, weighs under 1,000 lb. Anything but racy, it looks and is a winged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Something Informal | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Nelson looked out there, saw Bess, a shaggy black mare, patiently switching her tail, harnessed to an old-time buggy, haltered to a steel trolley-line pole. He demurred. "It's the law," said Reuben Curtis. A hundred guests soon filled the echoing lobby, but failed to decide the case. Reuben Curtis and a bellhop hustled to the nearest police court, quickly unearthed this 100-year-old statute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bess in Boston | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...District Court, asked for an ejectment order against Lodger Talor Bela Nager. Objection: "Noisy and dirty habits" of Lupus, Lodger Nager's Alsatian dog. Defending counsel pleaded for closer scrutiny of the facts: "I ask that Lupus, who is now sitting with his ears erect and his tail wagging outside the door, eagerly awaiting a chance to clear his character, be summoned as a witness." The Court smiled shrewdly, rejected the plea. "It is impossible," said the Court, "to administer the oath even to the most intelligent wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Dumb Witness | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Interesting as a business fight, the Strotz-Ringling battle is significant of a change that has come over the show industry in Chicago. Sidney Strotz, the tail, lean, hard-chinned younger son of a North Shore socialite family, has been successful in a variety of businesses (wrapping-machinery, Korn King products, auto supplies) since leaving Cornell in 1919. Like most of his friends he lives in fashionable Lake Forest. One of his friends who did not live in Lake Forest was the late Patrick T. ("Paddy") Harmon, proprietor of "Dreamland" (dance pavilion) and promoter of bicycle races who was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chicago Circus | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...Tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Contest | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

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