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...years ago Boeing Airplane Co. turned out the Monomail, a sleek, fast, low-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear. Main features of the Monomail's design were worked into a big twin-engined bomber recently developed by Boeing for the Army. Last week Boeing announced near completion, for autumn delivery, of the first of a fleet of mail-&-passenger planes adapted from the bomber design for United Air Lines (like Boeing a subsidiary of United Aircraft & Transport Corp...
Kurzman to Constable. Since 1905 the 73-year-old specialty shop of Kurzman has been on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. From it have gone many notable trousseaus. The White House bridal gear of Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, Mrs. Jessie Wilson Sayre and the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson were from Kurzman...
...near Wabasha." Officials scowled apprehensively for the trimotored Ford carried eight passengers. "Freeburg talking. Motor vibrating badly." Cool, Pilot Freeburg continued to describe to headquarters how the terrific vibration of the unbalanced propeller jerked the motor from its mountings, how it lodged in a wing strut, damaged the landing gear. Lest the 500 Ib. of dead metal drop and injure some one on the ground, he swung his crippled ship out over the Mississippi River, banked steeply, shook the engine off, watched it fall down, down, down safely into the water. After requesting a relief ship, he maneuvered...
Because landing gear cuts down speed and range, the Navy plans to fly the Akron's brood without gear in time of war. When operating on the high seas, both wheels and pontoons would be equally useless in a forced water landing. Unless they can reach a friendly shore and make a fishtail landing, pilots unable to return to Mother Akron will be counted as lost...
...Theological Seminary, Professor John Livingston Lowes of Harvard, Peter Moore Speer, vice president and general counsel of Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., the late Episcopal Bishop Coadjutator David Hummell Greer of New York, the late Senator Matthew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania. W. & J. students are fond of virile gear such as corduroys and sturdy boots. Most of them like their new President Hutchison because, though he has no hobbies, no sports, he shows an earnest, agreeable interest in their games. In recent college elections the non-fraternity students won a sweeping victory. President Hutchison, a Sigma Alpha Epsilon, expressed...