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...pilot whipped the plane into a vertical bank, streaked back at 225 m.p.h. The roar of the motor, one newshawk said afterward, was the deepest note he had ever heard from an aircraft engine. This engine was Pratt & Whitney's new 1830 Wasp, described by its makers as the most powerful ever developed for standard service in the U. S. Before the flight demonstration another 1830 Wasp on a test block made spectators' ears throb, shook their bellies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Mighty Motor | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

Built with great secrecy at a cost of $120,000, Hughes's low-wing monoplane is equipped with a tremendous Wasp motor, a fuselage longer than the wingspan, a curious stilt-like landing gear which folds during flight. For two days Pilot Hughes had driven this big racer over the Santa Ana course. The first day he broke the landplane record with ease, lost the credit for it because of a technicality. The second day, he fulfilled all the requirements, had nearly finished when the mishap occurred. As he bent to inspect the damage, exuberant timers announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Record Into Beet Patch | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

...wreckage left by an upstate flood that had taken 42 lives. And in China the colossal Yangtze and Hwangho Rivers cut loose with a deluge of Biblical fury, drowned as many as 1,000 Chinese in a single hour, kept right on drowning them by thousands and left wasp-waisted little Chinese Dictator Chiang Kai-shek once more acutely conscious that, when the heavens are angry, praying, trembling man is no better than a water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Water Woe | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...women. Desire to avenge some specific injury was indicated by 32% more. Other replies: "He was a louse" (or pig, bedbug, skunk, rat, cockroach, snake). Another: "My husband had the grace of a hippopotamus, the brain of a gnat, looked like a giraffe, stung like a wasp, had the personality of a dead salmon and he smelled like a stable full of dead horses." Another: "I heard so much about the alimony jail and I wanted to see the inside so badly that I sent my husband there so that I could visit him." "Are you satisfied now that your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Maniacal Wives | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

Early one morning last week in her native Brooklyn Miss Ingalls' new Wasp-powered Lockheed Orion Auto da Fe (Act of Faith) was trundled out of a hangar for a non-stop flight to California. Standing beside the gleaming black-&-silver monoplane, Miss Ingalls' dander rose when a bystander said something about a possible funeral. ''You be quiet!" she snapped, blue eyes blazing. Tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Miss Ingalls next became angry over an airport ruling that she had to use an unfamiliar runway. Finally she took off, headed west, reached Burbank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Act of Faith | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

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