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Henry Ford and his son, Edsel, are shareholders and prominent backers of the Stout Metal Airplane Corporation, constructing not "flivvers" but large, all-metal passenger planes of the most modern and refined design. Powered with a Liberty motor, the Stout plane can carry eight passengers within its roomy cabin and fly over 100 miles an hour for long stretches. According to a Dearborn announcement, five or six of these planes will be ready this year, and the great Ford organization expects to sell them, without difficulty, on behalf of the Stout Co. The Liberty motor is now getting...
Skehen removed his short clay pipe and gazed reflectively out of the window of his little cabin under Widener gate. "Take St. Patrick's day for instance. I've seen it pouring on Harvard Square and three hundred students out parading in the rain, soaked outside and in. They would stop every block or so to brace up their spirits, and keep on marching. If they stopped for the kind of bracers they get today, no one would ever finish the parade...
...Ship discipline is occasionally weakened by this influx of society scions. I never heard a man swear like the bos'n who saw a fat first cabin passenger fall on the neck of one of the deck-hands. She happened to be the aunt of one of his fraternity brothers...
...fashioned in plot and jest. rude Tom's Cabin polished up and set to music, is the basis of the narrative. There is considerable Negro harmony and soft-shoe shuffling of eminent excellence. There is a troupe of English dancing girls without which few music shows nowadays are complete. There is a pretty prima donna who can sing and a mildly acceptable cast...
...tanks as far as possible from the engine, particularly not along the line of the motor and the longitudinal axis of the machine. The inherent stability which the code insists on would lessen chances of losing-control. Grover C. Loening, famed aeronautical engineer, has suggested that crash-proof passenger cabins might be built, immune from injury no matter the height of fall. This may be too much to hope for. The code at least demands that all edges of cockpits shall be well padded and that the padding should be extended to cover the front, part of cockpit or passenger...