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Another unique feature of the design is the tractor propeller. Hitherto, flying boats have been built with the engine mounted behind the pilot and passengers, with the propeller pushing-convenient in docking but offering always the possibility of the engine landing right on top of the personnel. The amphibian with its engine in front avoids this danger. The engine is inverted to improve the pilot's vision and works apparently even better in this position. This expedient, simple as it may appear, has a great military value. In spite of its novel characteristics and multiple function, the new plane...
...prosperity, and reducing the huge War debts. The key to the process lies in communication and transportation. The British apparently expect to open up the continent from north to south by the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad and its feeder lines, while the French have established lines of communication by tractor across the Sahara from Morocco to Timbuctoo in the heart of the continent. No one knows what a thorough exploitation of the continent may mean to the world's trade. Since the War, the development of African Copper properties, such as Tanganyika Copper, has already made its influence felt...
...year age today, Soldiers Field was covered with snow, and the baseball aspirants faced another two weeks of monotonous indoor practice. Today, however, the greensward presents a springlike aspect. It is still rather soft, but the ministrations of Mr. Enwright and his gasoline tractor are fast remedying that fault...
...Even after the armistice, when a board of line officers got together to formulate their specifications for an ideal caterpillar tractor for divisional artillery, the highest speed pictured in their most optimistic dreams was twelve miles an hour. In the meantime, the Holt Manufacturing Co. has already produced an ordnance tractor that can attain a speed of 30 miles an hour and can negotiate a 45-degree slope without difficulty. Incidentally, it can be driven submerged in water up to the driver's chin...
...when guns will be melted into tractor plows is not yet in sight; but the time has arrived when poison gas is put to constructive use. The army chemists have joined the ranks of those scientists who are endeavoring; by taking thought, to add a year to man's three score and ten. They have discovered curative properties in chlorine, mustard gas and lewisite...