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...TILT WING: Rolled out last week by Ling-Tempco-Vought, Inc. of Dallas, the XC-142A transport has four turbo-prop engines and a wing that can be tilted for takeoff so that its four 15.6-ft. propellers point upward. When they all are pulling together, the props should generate enough direct lift to raise the plane vertically. When safely above obstacles, the pilot will gradually tilt the wing into normal flying position. The plane has yet to be flown, but its designers admit that it is no speedster. It will cruise at less than 300 m.p.h., and its operating...
...JEAN XCÉRON-Fried, 40 East 68th. A major artistic talent, Xceron, 74, left Greece at 14 to study art in the U.S., later spent ten formative years in Paris. A colorful sampling of his graceful cubist abstractions is given in recent oils, water-colors and drawings composed with lyrical lines in delicate pastels. Through...
...m.p.h. From San Diego, the ship went north to Seattle, back to San Diego, then to Fort Worth, north to Dayton and back to Fort Worth before it finally landed, more than 19 hours after its takeoff. It looked as if the transport version of the B-36, the XC-99, would have no trouble fulfilling Convair's promise to carry 400 passengers for 8,100 miles nonstop...
...argument in Tract XC of Tracts for the Times conclusive...
...unconditional repeal of the present law is impracticable. a. The currency must be increased. 1 Contraction of bank issue. Table I. page 32 in Rep. of Compt. of Cur., 1889. Sec. of Treas. 1889. p. XC; Trussig Silver Ques. Quar. J. Econ, p. 19. 2. Increase in population and business, Census 1890. Forum Apr. 1890, p. 169. 2. Per capita circulation less than other countries. b. Silver can best supply the need of more currency. 1. Necessity of a metallic basis. 2. Diminution of gold supply. 3. U. S. the greatest silver supply; Sec. of Treas. 1889 LXXIX...