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Last week Pratt & Whitney boasted that it had produced the most powerful aeronautical engine in the U. S.-800 h. p.† It is a Twin Wasp, with 14 cylinders in two concentric radial banks of seven cylinders each. Weight: 1.36 Ib. per h. p. Pratt & Whitney began experiments in increased power four years ago, decided on the two-bank radial design largely because it offers no more head resistance than the ordinary single-bank type. Observers guessed that the Twin Wasp would be installed in the new high-speed Boeing transports for United Airlines, and in the giant Sikorsky...
...children were just as colorful. Handsome Son Attillo snatched the great-great-grandniece of George Washington, Mary Washington Bond, from the hands of Sir Thomas Lipton and the brother of the Khedive of Egypt (to whom she was successively reported engaged) and married her. Wasp-waisted Mary Bond was the most beautiful debutante in New York, referred to by Portraitist Richard Hall as ''the perfect woman, nobly planned." Daughter Victoria Morosini eloped with the family coachman and was disinherited. Nobody but the immediate family ever saw Daughter Amelia. According to Riverdale gossip she was horribly mauled...
When Governor James Rumsey Beverley advocated birth control to check the fast-growing population of Puerto Rico he stirred up a wasp's nest of indignation. But Puerto Ricans regard Nature's population-reducing visits with fatalistic equanimity. Every few years a hurricane kills a few hundred of them, destroys their homes and crops. They name the hurricane for the saint on whose day it occurred, then forget about it. When on the day of San Eusebio last week the sea became still under a windless sky, natives were suddenly reminded of the hours preceding the hurricane of San Felipe...
...Falaise, France, Camille Labourgois drank a glass of wine without noticing a wasp in the glass, was stung in the throat, choked to death...
...hours after the Hutchinson "flying family" had been picked up on the coast of Greenland last week (see col. 2), a big Wasp-powered Bellanca monoplane lumbered across Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. and roared off for Italy. It carried...