Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor space three times since January and has stepped up production schedule from six a week to 20 a week and is still unable to keep pace with incoming orders. An auxiliary assembly plant operates at Long Beach, Calif, for the benefit of West Coast purchasers. This high-wing, 560-lb. monoplane is powered by a thoroughly proven 40 h. p. Continental Aircraft engine and has a top speed of 87 m. p. h. It lands slower than many people approach arterial stops. The cost to run it for one hour is less than...
Early last summer the Baroness decided to cap these exploits by flying the North Atlantic. In July she arrived in Manhattan with a dour, 31-year-old Swedish pilot named Kurt Bjorkvall and the backing of the Stockholm Tidningen-Dagblad. Acquiring an old Bellanca high-wing monoplane with one motor, they announced they would fly from Floyd Bennett Field to Stockholm...
...worked under Floyd Gibbons, conducted a long international correspondence on political and literary matters with his old schoolmates, many of whose letters he includes in his autobiography, saw enough of journalism to be sure it was not his career. Returning to the U. S. he wrote for a left-wing literary magazine called The Liberator, had himself psychoanalyzed, set up a Greenwich Village establishment with a gentle, observant girl named Laura, lived in an experimental colony in New Jersey...
...Corp. of Lincoln, Neb. claims it is waiting only for the financial aspects of its founding to be settled before going into mass production in a few weeks to fill the 1,000-odd orders for flivver planes it has on hand. Its plane is a conventional lightweight, low-wing monoplane. The Ford motor is set in reverse position so that the propeller is attached where the clutch normally is when the engine is used on an automobile. Ford Motor Co. has no connection with Arrow, sells motors in batches so that they cost Arrow but $150 apiece, including...
These men are fast, have good ball control, team well, and, most important asset, possess quick accurate shots in front of the cage. With Captain Wood on one wing and Don Sleeper on the other they may provide a winning scoring punch...