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Word: wright (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With her two 2,000-h.p. Wright Cyclones rumbling, she taxied out to open water, swung into the wind and poised for flight. Spindrift ripping from her slim stern, she was up on the step. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Perfect Wing | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...pair of 1,200-h.p. Wright Cyclonesrowling in a hangar; a glimpse of green fields through a hole in the overcast; 200m.p.h.; an odd pressure in your ears; a old jet of air in your face; a pretty hostess handing you hot chicken; a sleek transport drifting in to a landing, flaps extended like an old lady spreading her skirts as she sits down; a lean beacon fingering the dark. An airline is all these things, and it is a dollar-&-cents business. Last week the U. S. airline which once was shakier than most in dollars & cents took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: To the Big League | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Perhaps the finest looking crew that is rowing under the name of Harvard, the hundred and fifty pound Varsity, takes the water against Yale and the Tigers on Lake Carnegie at Princeton tomorrow in a race for the Wright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity 150's Favorites to Win Over Tiger, Yale Crews | 5/12/1939 | See Source »

...Curtiss-Wright for 400 P-40 all-metal pursuits, to be powered with Allison engines. Reported speed: well above 400 m.p.h. >$2,880,000 to Consolidated (whose huge flying boats are U. S. Navy favorites) for four four-engined bombers, reportedly able to fly 280 m.p.h., carry 2,500 lbs. of bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: High & Fast | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...most powerful U. S. air-cooled engine (Wright's efficient 1,600-h.p. Cyclone) weighs 1.187 Ibs. per h.p. Bigger engines now testing will have lower specific weight, may better Allison's figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Powerful Secret | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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