Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Publisher Putnam was fidgeting and fretting in a hotel room. Somewhere out over the Atlantic from Harbor Grace, N. F. was "A. E.," alone this time in a wasp-powered red-&-gold Lockheed. In the four years since her first flight "G. P." had rarely been far in the background of her career. He had backed her flying and, astute about publicity, nurtured her fame when she by her reticence might have let it languish. Two years ago he married her. Now she was flying toward Paris on the fifth anniversary of Lindbergh's flight...
Nearly two years ago Pratt & Whitney motor experts flew for newsmen a plane equipped with what looked like an ordinary Wasp engine but which differed in an important respect: the engine had no carburetor, received fuel by direct injection into its cylinders. No more was heard of the experiment until last week when Pratt & Whitney announced that long-time tests had proved successful: a carburetorless Hornet engine of 525 h. p. had been installed in a Boeing mail plane for actual service. Advantages: direct fuel injection eliminates all carburetion troubles including the danger of ice formation in the carburetor during...
...wasp was little Huey Long. He dictated a succinct reply: "I have the honor to decline your demands in toto." Then he ordered out the Baton Rouge unit of the National Guard and a detachment of highway police, directed them to guard the Capitol and executive mansion "to prevent Cyr from seizing them." Next he hopped into a State automobile and roared off for the capital...
...little landscapes. He would sneak away from his job at the Versailles Peace Conference to paint the honey-bearded chef of the Hotel Chatham in Paris. He told President Wilson, General Pershing, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson what he thought of them and earned the subsidiary nickname of "The Wasp." When he could not stand the idea of drawing another frock coat, he would paint himself again, accenting his pixie face, dressing himself in outlandish costumes. There exist striking self-portraits of Billy Orps in a succession of funny hats, in racing silks as a jockey, as a major...
...divided in two for the occasion. There were tunes by a prodigious band, elaborate parades of civic and social organizations. Presently the first covey of stunt flyers, a team of Europeans assembled by onetime U. S. Navy flyer Lieut. Alford J. Williams, took the air. Going past the stands, Wasp Udet shot out of formation as the other planes landed, climbed almost perpendicularly, turned on his side, dropped till his left wing seemed to brush the ground, climbed again, rounded the field upside down at a height of 200 ft., cut his motor and made a perfect landing after three...