Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...autogiro which he flew last week is his latest model. The fuselage is 16 ft. long, flat and rather wide. Stub wings with upturned tips extend from each side of the fuselage. The tail structure is 8 ft. wide and has boxed double rudders, double fins, an upper (elevator) and a lower (stabilizer) tail plane. When the tail planes are deflected they meet and act as a single plane. The tractor propeller is 81 in. over all and operated by a Genet-Major five-cylinder radial motor which develops 100 h.p. at 2,400 r.p.m...
Charles ("Chic") Sale is a vaudeville entertainer. The Specialist is one of his monologs, usually reserved by him for stag gatherings. Printed privately several months ago, circulated quietly (chiefly at newsstands), it has achieved wide popularity among people not squeamish at the mention of a "privy" or "backhouse." The speaker is a carpenter who specialized in privy construction, became thereat the champion of Sangamon County. He gives full details of the best design and procedure, with reasons...
...following list gives 20 stocks labelled with various degrees of certainty as Morgan Stocks. It shows a wide diversity of Morgan interests, a wide diversity of Morgan profit. The stock prices given are respectively the closing prices on Jan. 2, 1929 and the closing prices on Aug. 17, no allowance being made for rights issued in the intervening period...
...world's best, able to accelerate from ten to 60 m.p.h. in ten seconds. It is, in fact, but a mirage rolling down the avenues of the imagination. "Unauthorized and inaccurate," said Rolls-Royce Co. of England, bridling proudly at reports, emanating from England and given world wide audience, that it was about to bring out a new model (TIME...
Such service stations may cost $400,000 or $500,000 apiece. The company which is to establish them must have for sale a wide range of equipment and services. Already Firestone has begun the manufacture of batteries. It is said that Harvey S. Firestone not long since called Harvey Jr. to him and commanded: "Go forth, my son, and buy me an oil company...