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...Plymouth engines cost about $150-one-tenth the price of an aircraft engine of similar power. The weight is about double. Several manufacturers, notably Wiley Post Aircraft Co. of Oklahoma, have experimented with the Ford 4-cyl. engine for airplane use. Others have tried motorcycle engines. Month ago a midget plane called Drone, powered with a 16-h. p. motorcycle engine, caused a mild sensation in London (TIME, May 6). Last week Austrian Pilot Robert Kronfeld flew from London to Paris, at a fuel cost of $1.47, in a glider with a 5-h. p. motorcycle engine...
Even with its $156,000,000 in assets National Steel is small as U. S. steel companies go. Its ingot capacity is less than one-tenth that of sprawling U. S. Steel Corp. Yet National was a Depression star, having made money in every year since it was born 30 days after the 1929 Crash. In the first quarter of this year, when eleven of the 15 leading steelmakers were in the black, National led the field with profits...
During the twelve-month the U. S. spent $2,200,000,000 on motor vehicles, tires, parts, accessories, and $2,700,000,000 on gasoline-a total of $4,900,000,000, about one-tenth of the national income. Deaths by automobiles last year rose 16% to an all-time record...
...collected. But when he became treasurer of 4-year-old Barnard in 1093 the college books showed liabilities of $30,000, assets of two bonds valued at $1,000 each. Now Treasurer Plimpton is 79 and Barnard, at 45, has property and endowment totalling $9,000,000 spends one-tenth that amount every year. Once while he was traveling on the Yukon River with the late great Jacob Schiff, that immigrant financier mentioned proudly that he would soon celebrate the 50th anniversary of his arrival in the U. S with only $500. On the anniversary, shrewd Mr Plimpton sent...
...observer looks through a pair of binoculars to count the images within each square, finding as, many as three or four hundred in each. In this work, the large telescopes are useless since the greatest area it is possible to photograph with a 100-inch instrument is about one-tenth of a square degree...