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Meanwhile, the students had fled from the scene of their crime, pursued ineffectually by two Englishmen mounted on motor cycles. An unexploded Mills bomb was later found on the spot where the car had stopped? a spot where two years previously two Englishmen were similarly murdered. Several suspects were later arrested...
...horsepower each revolve at 2,200 times a minute-hence their large power for comparatively small weight-while the propellers are geared down and therefore work more slowly and efficiently. The engines are placed in tandem, with a propeller at front and rear end. Thus, if one motor ceases functioning, there still remains sufficient power to sustain flight, and there exists no dangerous tendency to slew the airplane violently around-as is the case when there are two motors, one on either wing. Nothing illustrates progress in design so much as comparison. The NC-4, which crossed the Atlantic five...
...State Department of Public Works, in anticipation of the flood of motor traffic to the Yale game Saturday, has announced that there are two equally good motor routes to New Haven this year, both of which go through Worcester. Autoists are advised not to go via Providence as the traffic is much heavier on this route and the roads are much worse...
...Bucharest across Central Europe, gave figures. It spent 17,000,000 francs in 1923, or about $850,000, flying 10,090 hr. and 800,000 mi.-something over a dollar a mile. How was the dollar spent? Twenty-five cents for depreciation, 25c. for upkeep of plane and motor, 12c. for fuel and oil, 3c. for automobile transportation, 20c. for pay of pilots and other personnel, 4c. for insurance and lie. for commercial operation including management and publicity...
...motor industry, generally speaking, is in the position of a squirrel in a cage. So far as profits go?it is very active but dubiously profitable. Production of cars proceeds at a good rate, but competition has so reduced retail prices that there is little satisfaction...