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...fabled namesake.* Standing more than 20 ft. high, with 85 ft. of wingspread and a 13-ft "gap" (between her two wings) she will be driven by her single Packard motor (an 825-h.p. V-type) at 110 m.p.h. Her propeller is enormous-a 15½-ft. traction blade, of such thrust that it is geared to one half the motor's speed turning only 1,100 revolutions per minute. (Smaller propellers must make 1,400 to 2,400 r.p.m.) Engineering skill has arranged that 50% of the Cyclops' final flying weight, 16,600 Ibs., shall be "useful...
...webbing their lines from Ohio through Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri and into Kansas. The man is Clement Studebaker Jr., 55-year-old head of all the Studebaker interests, president of the Studebaker Brothers Trust, chairman of the North American Light & Power Co. which holds among other properties the Illinois Traction System (the longest electric raliway in the world)-manufacturer, financier, "clubman" (he belong to clubs in Boston, Detroit, Manhattan, Chicago). The corporations are: 1) the North American Light and Power Co. of Studebaker (value $200,000,000), 2) The North American Co. in which Studebaker and Senator McKinley of Illinois...
...Story* jolts off down the clay ruts of Lane County, Tennessee - stretches of crowded, stumbling action; bursts of mulish power. Abner Teeftallow, a brawny illiterate of 18, leaves the poor-farm where his mother died insane, to labor as a teamster on a traction project of Lanesburg's genius and potentate, Railroad Jones. From his fellow teamsters he learns the technique of hillbilly manhood- gulping moonshine, shooting craps Saturday nights in a wood, toting an automatic pistol for protection on "rambling" (courting) nights and for display at prayer-meetings. He reveres the four local gods- public opinion, money...
...French have planned a compromise type of expedition, using motor sledges in co-operation with collapsible amphibian planes. Their sledges differ from the caterpillar-tread ones that failed Wilkins, having suction-grip rubber "paws" on a traction wheel extended in front of the sled-runners...
...fear and trembling. Even minor treaties are subject to arduous Senatorial scrutiny. Mrs. Lowry cites the fate of one concerning the Congo Free State. When the Senate finally ratified it, it "was so bedeviled as to its verbiage that it might have been an extract from a Delaware traction charter". Secretary of State Hay re-read it and stated that "he was going to have it parsed by a commission of grammarians and field in the archives of the department...