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...have to work for his living, young Mr. Lawrance could devote the years after graduation to research, experiment with motors and study in Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1911 he presented the result of his first work in aerodynamics to the French engineer and towerman, Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel. It was an original type of high-lift wing section later to be embodied in Allied and German planes, and still known as Eiffel...
Vexed by reports that Manhattan's Chrysler Building is now "World's Tallest Structure," numerous French patriots sent letters, telegrams, petitions to Prime Minister André Tardieu last week demanding that he add a 22-foot extension to the Eiffel Tower, thus making it again tallest...
Altitudes today: Chrysler, 1,046 ft., 6½ in.; Eiffel...
...Eiffel Tower in Paris, 1,024 ft., 6 in., less tall than the Chrysler Building but taller than the Bank of Manhattan Building, has an observation point higher than that of either...
...sailed around the Eiffel Tower, won a 100,000 franc prize. His experiments he describes in My Airships, published in 1904 by the Century Co. TIME will pay $5 for a copy of My Airships...