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...WHEELLESS AIR CAR will be produced by Curtiss-Wright Corp. this fall. Four-passenger car rides a foot above rough terrain or water on a cushion of air, may be first used by oil industry, military, farmers. Car is powered by two engines (300 h.p.) that operate large fans generating air cushion deflected by louvers to produce top speed of 60 m.p.h...
...year later, there were close to a dozen trucks and a community of the poor, called Emmaus,* working together to collect and process the junk that keeps them alive. Today, three years later, the community has mushroomed to three villages, where no families and 200 single men live in wheelless freight cars, old buses and corrugated metal shanties...
Koerner found the steps for The Pigeons at Brooklyn's Borough Hall, "though the scene goes far back into my childhood." The Barker's Booth was a memory of an amusement park in Vienna, rediscovered at Coney Island. Like Monkey Bars and The Lot, with its engineless, wheelless car and painted palm trees, each of those pictures was what he calls "a balanced structure of contradictions" -a mingling of reality and illusion...
...attempts and untoward incidents preceding it. Manhattan evening papers considered it far less important than that day's World Series game. Even the "hardluck flyers," Socialite Hugh Herndon Jr. and oldtime Barnstormer Clyde Pangborn, flyers of two oceans, seemed to sense an anticlimax when they skidded their wheelless Bellanca monoplane into the airport at Wenatchee, Wash., 41 hr. after taking off from Samishiro Beach, 280 mi. north of Tokyo. Their troubles on the flight had been less than their troubles with the Japanese authorities in Tokyo (TIME, Sept. 28, et ante). Yet their flight...
...touching the ground, the plane ran along, neatly balanced on its one wheel, for a few seconds. Then the wheelless axle struck the sun-baked earth; the plane dragged 30 yards, suddenly flopped over on its back...