Word: pusher
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...famed Potsdamer Platz marched one Josef Putz, Moselle Valley vintner, pushing a large cask of Moselle in front of him. On each of the cask's heads were inscribed pleas to drink more Moselle, eschew beer and foreign wines. As a mark of his sincerity Cask-Pusher Putz had already pushed his cask from Coblenz to Cologne to Hamburg to Berlin (approximately...
...trip, who was hurrying in evening attire to an important dinner engagement in New York, had urged the pilot to go through. In the course of his visit here. which was part of a survey of commercial aviation in the Americas, Count Henri gained a reputation as a "pusher." chafing under each delay in his aerial tour...
...arid Mojave Desert, a queer, experimental bird tried its wings last week. It is the product of the Northrup Aircraft Corp., designed by John Northrup, one-time Lockheed Vega engineer and W. K. Jay, pilot. Their queer bird is all wing-with a 60-h. p. motor and pusher propeller, retractable three-wheel landing gear, a skinny polelike arrangement for flippers and rudders, seats within the wing itself. Indicated performance characteristics of this trial plane are: low landing speed, high speed of over 100 m. p. h., large gliding angle, and little probability of spinning...