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Approved by the Civil Aeronautics Authority last week was the second high-powered U. S. engine to be built inline, for streamlining into wings and fuselages of high-speed airplanes. Like the Army's 1,000-horsepower Allison (TIME, Jan. 30), which has much less head resistance than broad-beamed radials, the new Ranger has twelve cylinders in two banks. Unlike the Prestone-cooled Air Corps motor, it is air-cooled, has finned cylinders set head down below the crankcase for better pilot visibility...
...design. Jubilant Ranger engineers declared its principles were adaptable to bigger engines, refused to confirm a current report: that at its modest (100 employes) plant at Farmingdale, L. I., Ranger is already working on a new powerplant of more than 1,000 horsepower to compete with Allison...
...warm-up at March Field one day last week she gleamed slimly among the bulb-nosed fighters, the potbellied bombers on the Army Air Corps Southern California airdrome. Major General Henry H. Arnold, greying Chief of the Air Corps, surveyed with particular approval her twin engines, Prestone-cooled V12 Allisons of 1,000 horsepower each, faired trimly into the metal wing. Well he knew that broad-beamed radial air-cooled motors, such as the big U. S. engine builders have brought to perfection, could not be used on such a ship without protruding in speed-killing humps on the wing...
Professor E. Allison Peers, of the University of Liverpool, reviewed the subject of "Spain Today and Tomorrow," at a public lecture in Emerson D last night under the sponsorship of the Department of History and of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures...
...Spain Today and Tomorrow" will be the topic of a free public lecture at Harvard tonight by Professor E. Allison Peers, of the University of Liverpool, England, at Emerson Hall at 8 o'clock. The lecture is under the auspices of the Department of History and of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures...