Word: tryed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week at Wayne County Airport, near Detroit, three officials of Stinson Aircraft Corp. flew a new type Stinson tri-motor. The three were Chief Engineer Arthur Saxon, 29, who had been eight years with Stinson, helped design its first plane; his assistant, Samuel Benson; and Chief Test Pilot Owen Pinaire. With two tons of lead ballast in the cabin, they wanted to try the plane's stability...
...photography almost as simple as ordinary black & white photography. The Roosevelt picture was taken with Photo flash bulbs for lighting, with an exposure of about 1/50 sec. The colors were recorded on one special sensitized plate, placed behind a taking screen made up of hundreds of thousands of infinitesimal tri-color (red, green, blue-violet) filters which absorb part of the light and transmit the remainder to the plate. This process produces a transparency which, held to the light, shows a photograph in original color...
Turning Fox. Ousted from his film company, hounded by lawsuits, pop-eyed William Fox has lain low on his Long Island estate ever since the Senate Banking & Currency Committee tried unsuccessfully to put him on the witness stand to unsnarl his jumbled stock dealings (TIME, June 27, et seq) Not in his recent rôle of sued but as suer Mr. Fox made news last week when the first of his major suits against the makers and users of sound film reproduction equipment for alleged infringement of patents (U. S. rights to which Mr. Fox personally acquired from...
...been known to die from the poisoning, but no one has been known to recover from the paralysis, said Dr. Maurice Isador Smith last week. Dr. Smith, 45, is the National Institute of Health investigator who two years ago traced the widespread "ginger jake" paralysis to tri-ortho-cresyl-phosphate adulteration. (Manufacturers and vendors have been jailed.) His information about Europe's poisoned apiol was the first revelation to U. S. womanhood of danger in that direction...
...press of a button by Governor Rolph in California, a plane despatcher at Newark Airport, N. J. waved his red flag one night last week at a Ford tri-motor, just christened The Comet. (Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh who had been expected to act as despatcher watched from the background.) Pilot Robert Le Roy raced his idling motors, taxied across the floodlit field; The Comet roared up into the western night. Next evening it alighted in Los Angeles...