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Some pieces of freight are eight feet by four feet, weigh 1,800 Ib. For these top hatches in the airplane are necessary, with tracks along which platforms are rolled to distribute the load evenly in the fuselage. To the job P. A.G. assigned one plane, an old, all-metal, tri-motor Ford (the San Fernando), calculated it would take 500 trips carrying a ton at a time, and expect to have the last load laid down in Tipuani Valley within 100 days. The saving in time over burros and porters is estimated at seven years, eight months; each trip...
Twice as many leg amputations are below the knee as above. Arm amputations are about 50-50 above and below the elbow. About 80% of artificial limbs are legs, made from willow, aluminum or fibre and costing about $200 when attached below the knee, $225 when attached above. They weigh about five pounds, last five or six years. Artificial arms cost from $125 for simple types to $250 for those including movable wrists and hands. Wearers always remove their artificial limbs upon retiring, usually stow them under the bed. They can be donned in two or three minutes. Many wearers...
...Bolles, varsity coach, and Gilbert E. Jones '38, manager, need more Freshman coxswains. Members of 1941 who weigh about 115 pounds should apply...
Most of the 2,500 existing doodlebugs have a 75-inch wheelbase, as compared to the 105-inch average of standard racing cars, weigh from 600 to 1,000 lb. The original midget cars were crude affairs powered by motorcycle engines, later by outboard motors, cost about $400 to build. In 1934 Los Angeles' Frederick Offenhauser, longtime assistant of Harry Miller whose standard-size engines won most of the important U. S. auto races in the past decade, developed a special miniature motor. Most top-notch doodlebuggers now use Offenhauser motors, spend up to $5,000 for a racing...
...Navy fliers launched by catapults at an acceleration of five times "gravity speed" temporarily weigh five times as much backward as they ordinarily weigh downward...