Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aviation industry was busy building planes to fly airline passengers faster than they had ever been flown before. Last week the first of the new crop, the Boeing "247," fastest multi-motored passenger ship in the world, was in regular transcontinental service on United Air Lines. Big, brutish low-wing monoplanes with twin Wasp engines, the new Boeings whipped back & forth between San Francisco and New York in 21½ hr. westbound, 20 hr. eastbound-about 10 hr. faster than former schedules. On the New York- Chicago run the new ships heated the already hot competition between United and Cord...
...landing. Crack! A slapping wave broke the starboard pontoon. Rather than taxi through the swells with his right wingtip boring the water, Pilot Vickery gunned his engines, took off for the landing field near Glenview north of the city. A mile short of that goal the weakened right wing crumpled. The plane crashed in a plowed field. Pilots, passengers, all were cremated...
...Completed last week was the White House swimming pool, built by popular subscriptions of $15,000. Tiled in colors, 50 by 15 ft., it stands in the west wing connecting the executive offices with the main building. In accepting it, President Roosevelt revealed that he had once tried to build a similar pool but it caved in. He took a 30-min. swim before dinner - his first exercise since entering the White House...
...Sloan Jr., of General Motors...............1,500 Matthew S. Sloan, of N. Y. Edison.........1,000 Walter C. Teagle, of Standard Oil of N. J. ...........2,000 O. P. Van Sweringen .............5,000 Albert H. Wiggin............. 8,500 Joseph Wilshire, president Standard Brands, Inc .........50,000 Daniel G. Wing, Boston banker ............2,000 Clarence M. Woolley. of American Radiator...
...several years Dr. Snyder has toyed with the idea of a complete flying wing, experimenting with models affixed to the front or top of his automobile. A high-school teacher of mechanics helped him build a wind tunnel, and last year he picked up Raoul Joseph Hoffman, an Austrian engineer who came through South Bend peddling slide rules. Together they built the ARUP which is simply a parabolic wing of 19-ft. span with fuselage & engine inserted in the middle. Dr. Snyder claims for his ARUP higher speed, slower landing, greater lift, greater safety than those of a conventional airplane...