Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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There was a suppressed question as to her airworthiness. Last spring, to give her greater lifting power, she had been cut in two and a 45-ft. section inserted at the slice. A friend of Major G. H. Scott said he had made a remark "about a patched or mended shoe never being quite as sound as a new one." Was the new construction absolutely integral with the original? Might there be an uncalculated weakness at the middle? Might a gale buckle...
There was another question. The R-101 had a smoking room. It was well insulated from the inflammable hydrogen. So was the small amount of gasoline carried to start the oil motors. Was there any danger of explosion...
Which was cause and which effect?the bump into the hill, the explosion, the fracture of the hull? A loss of a rudder? These questions remained unanswerable last week. Incendiary smoking by one of the party seemed, however, out of the question. Discovery of a control fin some distance away from the wreck in the woods seemed to point to what precipitated the final plunge. British and French flying experts hastened to the scene, to answer the multitude of whys, then asked Dr. Eckener to help...
...Californians respect Archbishop Hanna for an able, unbigoted, civic-minded citizen. In 1913, when the Japanese question became a national wrangle, he was the state's choice for the important post of immigration commissioner...
...have been the Sisto stumbling block is Cosden Oil Co. which has suffered continued liquidation for many months. Likewise, Sisto Financial Corp., offered at $53 a share last year, and believed to be 40%-owned by Mr. Sisto, has dropped steadily. In the Sisto insolvency there was no question of malpractice, fraud. It was simply the inevitable consequence of over-expansion, then shrinking collateral...