Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better than the fastest commercial amphibion so far. To speed it up that much, Fairchild's Designer Albert Gassner (oldtime Fokker engineer) had to devise some radical treatment of the pontoons and landing gear, which are what make most amphibions slow. His solution was to make the wheel and wingtip floats fold into the wing, forming a sleek flying-boat when the ship is in flight. The engine, in a stream lined nacelle, is mounted atop the wing. A new wrinkle in amphibion design is an auxiliary 30 h. p. -motor and water propeller to be stowed...
...with both hands all tied up. Then of course there is the possibility one might see the strings when in Church but forget why one put them there. . . . There are all sorts of suggestive stimuli which might be employed. Such for example might be a notched stick or prayer wheel. . . ." The Chronicle is edited by Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, 64, rector of Poughkeepsie's Christ Church, a strapping angler and huntsman who looks like a country squire, seldom wears clerical garb. In a church noted for its urbanity and jocularity he has been called "Gadfly Cummins" and his journal...
AFTER SUCH PLEASURES - Dorothy Parker-Viking ($2.25). Dorothy Parker has no compunction about breaking a butterfly upon a wheel. In fact it is the best thing she does, and her exhibitions in this kind are greeted with applause and cries for more. Like other first-rate comedians, however, she cannot always be content to raise a laugh. Though she cannot refrain from tearing her butterflies apart, sometimes she does it with a savagely sentimental reluctance. The stories in her latest collection illustrate both tendencies. Some of them: A horse-faced trained nurse keeps her long upper lip brightly firm while...
When an airplane is left standing at an airport, it is the practice on some airlines to tie the control wheel, lest a sudden gust flip the control surfaces about, damage them or even upset the plane. Last week the control-lashing practice was blamed for a crackup. A big biplane of Eastern Air Transport, loaded with 15 passengers, had taken off from Newark Airport, climbed some 50 ft. and flopped down again. Alleged reason: a mechanic failed to unlash the control stick before the plane took...
...Absolutely levelheaded; a great businessman," is what his friends call him. His estate at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. is named "Sleepless Hollow." His motorboat, which is very fast and makes terrifying turns when the owner is at the wheel, is called "The Four Hawaiians," but Mr. Cook has not mentioned the celebrated and inimitable Hawaiians on the stage since the Massie Case (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931 et seq.}. Majordomo at Lake Hopatcong is Ellis Rowlands, a Welsh ex-actor still shaken by his experience in the Black Watch during the War. It is Rowlands, wearing footman's livery...