Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...queer, experimental bird tried its wings last week. It is the product of the Northrup Aircraft Corp., designed by John Northrup, one-time Lockheed Vega engineer and W. K. Jay, pilot. Their queer bird is all wing-with a 60-h. p. motor and pusher propeller, retractable three-wheel landing gear, a skinny polelike arrangement for flippers and rudders, seats within the wing itself. Indicated performance characteristics of this trial plane are: low landing speed, high speed of over 100 m. p. h., large gliding angle, and little probability of spinning...
...Pitcairn Super-Mailwing at Newark, N. J. airport an early morning last week. He opened the mail compartment, chucked in his load of mail, and climbed into the pilot's seat. The Wright Whirlwind, nicely warmed up, was flipping the prop over slowly. The ship trembled in its wheel chocks. He opened up the motor to recheck the steady drone of power that was to carry him to Boston. Mechanically everything was fine. The ship had had its regular inspection the night before. A perfect trip depended solely on the pilot himself. Mechanics hauled away the chocks. Pridham taxied...
...read in an outdated magazine about the trip around the world in a 40-foot boat that Jack London was planning to take. London's cook had quit. Johnson applied by letter for the job. London wired Johnson: "Can you cook? Salary $25 a month, also take trick at wheel." To qualify, Johnson worked for a week in a restaurant. When the expedition broke up in the South Seas he lived on the beach for a year and learned photography from a stranded French cameraman...
Finally Newman's day came. Pio Nono (Pius IX) died; his successor raised Newman, at 80, to the Cardinalate. Ten years later (1890) Death came for him, who had lived to see his wheel of fortune come full circle. A gentleman and a scholar, he had his reward...
...FORTUNE'S first cover is a twelve-spoked wheel of the Zodiac, spun slowly against a golden sky by a shapely Goddess of Plenty. The management promised a different cover design in similar vein each month. Among the footnotes (relegated to the last pages after the scholar's fashion) it was told that Thomas Maitland Cleland, designer and typographer, executed the first cover and is the new handmaiden's important adjunct, Art Editor...