Word: taubes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This belief of U.S. officials made a sad man, a man with cool heels, of an engineer named Alex Taub. A British-American, a Chevrolet man who went to work for Vauxhall Motors Ltd. (the General Motors in Britain), Mr. Taub returned to the U.S. last December with a mission and three specimens of a whang-dinging good British aircraft engine. The mission: to persuade the U.S. to manufacture the engines in quantity. The engine: Napier's 24-cylinder, 50-horsepower, inline, liquid-cooled Sabre (TIME...
...this week, wispy, earnest Engineer Taub was ready to give up. Best the U.S. could do was offer to manufacture a few Sabres for experience. For the rest, Britain would have to lean on its own productive plant for its supply of the sensational new engine. One reported reason for this cold shoulder was that British bigwigs in the U.S. did not want to complicate their purchasing with a new item. Another was that the services and OPM thought they had good enough engines now, better ones being made, still better ones in the works...
Whatever the merits of Alex Taub's quest, the Sabre, already flying in the formidable Hawker Typhoon fighter, was a fair symbol of the horsepower race. Well knowing that there is no substitute for "soup," British designers had gone all out after horsepower. The Sabre turns up nearly twice the horsepower of the old British pursuit engine, the 1,200 horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin (which Packard is still tooling up to make for Britain and the U.S., under a $187,500,000 order). But the U.S. is hot after horsepower too: it already...
...ring. In the four years that Adam has sponsored the sportscasting of big-time bouts, it has boosted its business phenomenally, chiefly with radio plugs, built up a Latin-American market describing battles via short wave. Famed among finical fight enthusiasts is the NBC team of Sam Taub & Bill Stern that works for Adam, describing right hooks and Homburgs with equal competency...