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Word: toledoan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...advantage largely accounted for the failure of most experiments to date: the burned oil left heavy carbon deposits. Last week a new, light two-cycle engine was described by Dick Roberts, plump aviation editor of the Toledo Blade. It had just been flown for Army & Navy observers by a Toledoan, Bert Naseef, cousin of Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak. Invented by one B. J. Augustine, built by Champion Rotary Motors Co. of Buffalo for which Bert Naseef is test pilot, the engine has but 20 moving parts, all enclosed; only 241 parts in all, compared with about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Little Champion | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

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