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...Super-Blower. For airplane research in supersonic speeds, Boeing Airplane Co. put into operation a wind tunnel whose 24-ft. fan is turned by two electric motors with 54,000 h.p. The fan can send air whistling through the tunnel at a maximum speed of 875 m.p.h. The tunnel can test scale-model planes with wing spans...
...chilling discovery 30 minutes before he was scheduled to pilot one of his speedboats in the Lake Tahoe Gold Cup race. Someone had sawed half through the two-inch propeller shaft of one of his Gold Cup racers, and had stuffed nuts, bolts and rags into the carburetor and blower. Another had been thoroughly doused with gasoline. It was, said Kaiser, "an attempt at plain, cold murder." But he climbed into a third boat in his fleet, buzzed off to a second place behind Shipping Heir Stanley Dollar...
...Other garden gadgets are also getting a big play. Food Machinery & Chemical Corp., for example, is doing a big business with small tractors ($129 and up) to which some 30 different attachments can be hitched-including a saw, a snowplow and blower, and an air compressor which can be used for spraying paint or insecticides or for greasing a car. Another Food Machinery device: the "Trim Master" ($45), which sucks up ragged grass along borders and snips...
Fire alarms sent almost 160 girls pouring out of Briggs and Barnard Halls at 8 a.m. Saturday morning. A small fire, caused by an overheated electric motor in the blower system, was localized in the area over the kitchen connecting the two dorms...
...Packettes" have a preheat system for quick and easy starting on the coldest arctic runways. Fresh air is warmed to 400° by a gasoline-burning, automobile-type heater. Then a hand-started blower drives the heated air over the engine proper, forces it through the crankcase and around the walls of the cylinders. In no more than ten minutes the engine is warm enough to start...