Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...applied the use of steel in tension on a calculated basis . . . Roebling began to hang the Brooklyn Bridge on a spider web of steel cables in 1868 . . . Major William LeBaron Jenny designed the first true steel-frame building in Chicago in 1883 . . . In the spring of 1896, Frank Lloyd Wright built a wooden windmill tower at Spring Green, Wis. It was slender and 60 ft. high, built of two-by-fours and wood sheathing anchored to a heavy stone foundation. The lightweight wood construction was designed in perfect tension balance, and it has withstood the storms for over half...
Almost simultaneously, Heart Specialist Irving S. Wright reported opposite and alarming results after experiments with trypsin which he and Dr. Alex Taylor did at New York Hospital. Half their rabbits died, and were found to have blood clots or hemorrhages in the heart and lungs. Dr. Wright quoted two other doctors who had given trypsin to nine human patients: six of them developed a total of eleven blood clots in the veins into which the enzyme was dripped. Dr. Wright concluded that trypsin should not yet be made available for general prescription...
...York Hospital's Irving Wright put in a word for the defense. "The doctor is taking an awful licking today," said he. "But it is also true that the community and the family conspire to make permanent invalids of these heart cases. And industry must learn that cardiacs do as well at their jobs as other workers ... It is up to us doctors as community leaders to see that these patients are treated as useful and productive citizens...
Shop Practices. The contract was let by Lieut. General Orval Cook, then chief of Procurement and Industrial Planning, who admitted that he had done so without ever inquiring into what K-F's costs for making the plane would be. And he had no records of the Wright Field meeting at which he, McCone and others made the final decision to go ahead. They were using a wire recorder, said General Cook, but "the recording equipment failed . . ." K-F's costs a plane were originally estimated at $467,000. Soon they soared to $902,000, then...
...plane is much like the DC-6B, but it has its own important differences. The DC-6B's Pratt & Whitney 2,500-h.p. engines have been replaced by 3,250-h.p. Wright turbo-compound engines, which use their exhaust jet to turn small turbines. This has stepped up the cruising speed to 365 m.p.h. (v. 310 in the DC-6Bs), making it possible to fly from New York to Los Angeles nonstop in eight hours. The plane has a cruising range of 4,450 miles, and, unlike the DC-6, can easily fly the Atlantic nonstop. The 69-passenger...