Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Giuseppe M. Bellanca has a secret. In his factory at New Castle, Del., is a big new plane about which only the following details were rumored last week: It has two Pratt & Whitney Wasp motors mounted tandem in the nose, one driving an ordinary tractor propeller, the other driving a shaft connected to a pusher propeller at the rear end. The tail of the plane is held out behind this rear propeller by two outriggers from the wings. Out of the Bellanca secrecy has issued this rumor: The plane is being built for Shirley J. Short, oldtime air mail pilot...
...Greed." As doyen of the Corps Diplomatique, the Spanish Ambassador Count José Maria Quiñones de Leon delivered himself of an ornate bouquet of phrases into one of which he startlingly introduced the wasp word "greed...
...great designer of radial air-cooled engines is Charles L. Lawrence, now president of Wright Aeronautical Corp. There are no patents on the basic design, so more than a dozen U. S. motormakers are producing them. Most famed are the Wright Whirlwind* and Cyclone, Pratt & Whitney Wasp and Hornet, Warner Scarab...
...Plane: a Lockheed-Vega monoplane with a 425 horsepower Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" motor, made the trip at an average speed of 150 m.p.h...
...Georgia Tech was asked to come out West. It seemed at first that a lion was asking a rabbit to come inside his den; when a picked Eastern team last fortnight beat a picked Western team, people thought that perhaps the analogy was that of a bear entertaining a wasp and the odds on the game approached even money...