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When the first modern Allison was being manufactured for use in military planes, the minds of its makers and the Air Corps officers in charge of its development were on the turbosupercharger. This is in effect a rotary air pump, separate from the engine but driven by its exhaust gases, which furnishes sea-level pressures to the carburetion system far beyond the altitude range of the integral supercharger. An exclusively American development, it gave great altitude performance . . . in bombers and in the larger fighters. But in the smaller fighters which the Allison was to power, its incorporation in the design...
Author Davenport has packed her book with descriptions of the unfeminine workings of Bessemers, open-hearth furnaces, skip-hoists, cast-houses. The men who pump lifeblood through the heart of Pittsburgh come alive in her pages-Irish steelworkers of the 1870s, Slovaks and "Hunkies" pouring in from the mills of Europe. Novelist Davenport's description of this hard, world-transforming valley of steel and furnaces is the most memorable part of her impressive work...
Jack Foster, 36, ex-assistant executive editor of the New York World-Telegram, went to Denver two years ago to pump some life blood into Scripps-Howard's doddering Rocky Mountain News. With the help of Business Manager Bill Hailey, he brightened up the stodgy, old (83 years) sheet, raised its sluggish circulation to a new high (about...
...green glossary to teach parents what their children are talking about was issued last week by New York City's school superintendent. For not only in New York but all over the land school children are speaking a strange new language, fazing their elders with terms like wobble pump, advection, burble, troposphere, chandelle, nacelle. A fourth R, preflight training, is now a part of many curricula. Its purpose is to condition school children to take to the air almost as soon as they leave the classroom. Less purposefully, but just as certainly, preflight training will mark an immensurably great...
...confused with Charles E. (for Erwin) Wilson, president of General Motors, or Charles E. (for Eben) Wilson, vice president of Worthington Pump & Machinery...