Word: channeling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifth Worst Accident's Cause. The cause of aviation's fifth worst heavier-than-air accident, the wreck of the Imperial Airways' City of Ottawa in the English Channel fortnight ago (TIME, July 1), was the splitting of two small connecting rod bolts. An inquiry board decided last week that the bolts were "fatigued," a metallurgical term which means that the crystals of the metal had been strained out of their most useful shape and arrangement, in this case probably by motor vibration. Planemakers took note of the necessity for tireless bolts...
...Bendix Aviation is another channel whereby General Motors has recently entered aviation. Bendix Aviation combines Bendix Brake Co., Eclipse Machine Co., Delco Aviation, Stromberg Motor Devices and Scintilla Magneto, and since last week Pioneer Instrument. In forming Bendix Aviation the Curtiss, Wright, United and Aviation Corp. interests worked with General Motors...
...quiddity is the present Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, William Henry Grenfell, Baron Desborough of Taplow, famed afterdinner speaker, chairman of the Pilgrim Society of Great Britain. Baron Desborough has other distinctions quite as noteworthy. In his time he has stroked a crew across the English Channel, swum twice across the Niagara River, been champion swordsman of the British Army, Mayor of Maidenhead, chairman of the Fresh Water Fish Committee. But it is as chairman of the Pilgrims that he is now best known to the world. As such he publicly dines some prominent U. S. citizen nearly...
...biplane City of Ottawa last week. They had little to fear, for Imperial Airways had carried 99,000 persons for 3,800,000 miles and except for one bad accident at the very beginning of its operations, had killed or injured not one person. While flying over the English Channel, as the City of Ottawa had done 100 times before, one of her engines went wrong. The pilot at the controls turned the plane back toward England. Three miles from Dungeness she struck the water. The passengers were dashed to the floor. Heavy baggage in a rear compartment smashed through...
...Channel, latest book of Ludwig Lewisohn, famed autobiographer, contains a bitter word-portrait of a woman. Mrs. Mary Arnold Lewisohn, the wife from whom Author Lewisohn has been separated since 1925, charged that the portrait was intended to be of herself. She sued for $200,000 libel. Harper & Bros., publishers of the novel, moved that Mrs. Lewisohn's complaint be dismissed. Last week Justice Peter Schmuck of the New York State Supreme Court, ruling on this motion, said: "Although for the most part the book is the gibberish ego of a selfish sentimentalist, and . . . the feverish exhalations of a perverted...