Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Eyes, cameras, typewriters and a roaring battery of telegraph machines were busy with new issues, new men. For them hospitable Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands had carpenters knock together a huge round table in what is ordinarily the lower house of the Dutch Parliament. A little hasty, a little crude were these arrangements, for the lower house had just risen a few days before. But a big, bland tablecloth covered chinks and splinters, was only a little lumpy. Eyeing each other shrewdly sat the two young statesmen, newly great, between whom the chief issues of last week lay: Dr. Julius...
...Curtiss engineers who jointly developed the Tanager in the Curtiss wind tunnel after two years' research, last week claimed that the floating aileron gives control at any angle of flight, adds non-stalling characteristics to the plane's performance, does not affect the life of the lower wing. The minimum performance requirements of the competition, included in the 18 preliminary tests which the Tanager successfully passed, are a high speed of 110 m.p.h., a minimum speed of 35 m.p.h., a rate of climb of 600 ft. per min. at sea level, a range of flight...