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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planes (model 307) will look like the 299, weigh 21 tons, carry 32 or sleep 18 passengers, speed at about 250 m.p.h. with 75% of the power of four Wright "Cyclones." As mail or experimental planes, they will have a range of 4,000 miles. Cost: $300,000 each. P.A.A. is to get two within the year, outfitted with mechanical cabin superchargers to fit them for high flying. Last week P.A.A. refused to divulge where it would use the two ships, but observers guessed that the two ships would start experimental high-altitude flights across the Atlantic. T.W.A. needs...
...American Airways was the first to act. Mindful of early Boeing flying boats and of the 299's splendid wing design, P. A. A. last autumn gave Boeing a contract for six gigantic Clippers, each to have two decks, carry 60 passengers, weigh 41 tons, speed at 200 m.p.h. These vast flying boats are now well along at Boeing's plant on the Duwamish Waterway, Seattle, the biggest seaplanes under construction in the U. S. Last week Boeing won an even juicier contract - to build the biggest land transports...
...under the direction of Assayer Buford, was to assay sample coins taken at random from all denominations and all Mints to determine that they were individually and as a group 900 fine or within a fraction there of. Task No. 3, under the direction of Dr. Holbrook, was to weigh some 300 sample coins and make sure that none of them was more than 1.5 grains†† heavier or lighter than the standards...
...erected as a WPA project, the statue will cost $35,000, and weigh 65 tons. A new stainless alloy containing 2% white glass will be used for the sheets forming the statue. There will be an interior staircase, an observation platform in the Apostle of Humility's head, and on the too of his head will splash a drinking fountain and bath for the wild birds St. Francis loved...
This thought occurred to Acting Superintendent A. B. Everts of the Cleveland National Forest in Southern California. But 50 gallons of water weigh 416 Ib. Hauling that much weight, plus a pump and its power unit, over a mountain trail is slow work. Gasoline pumps are convenient but heavy. Forester Everts hit upon a source of power that is light and cheap as well as convenient. He tried frozen carbon dioxide...