Word: sleekness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flame from the engine exhaust," said Pilot C. J. Melrose to a group of worried Singapore airport officials one night last week. Just in after a bad battle with a monsoon over the Bay of Bengal between Allahabad and Singapore, Pilot Melrose in his slow plane had seen the sleek Lockheed-Altair Ladv Southern Cross of Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith rocket past at 200 m.p.h., only 200 ft. above the waves. At that rate he should have reached Singapore long before Pilot Melrose. But when Melrose finally slid in for a landing, Sir Charles was two hours...
Front-wheel drive is no novelty. Cords with forward driving axles were introduced in 1929, discontinued in 1932. What made the new Cord exciting was that it incorporated front-wheel drive in a completely new design. The body is low and sleek with a rounded rectangular one-piece hood that opens from the front and is banded with vane-like "Venetian" (blind) louvers. Water and oil caps are under a cowl lid on the right, matching a cowl ventilator on the left. Front lights are retractable like an airplane's landing gear, disappearing into the fenders when little cranks...
...their Fifth Avenue ticket office. Sweet to French hearts as the ceremony would have been if held in France, sweeter still was the prospect of publicity in Manhattan where most transatlantic tourist trade originates. From England therefore, the Normandie brought Donor Hales, his capacious wife, the Duke, and sleek Gualtiero Fedrigoni, Italian Line manager in London. Delayed at the dock because he forgot to fill out a custom's declaration, Mr. & Mrs. Hales finally hustled off to the Waldorf-Astoria for the night. On the way, the perky little M. P. espied his Trophy glittering in the Italian Line...
...dozen sleepy-looking Missouri citizens who included a garage proprietor, a retired traveling salesman, a farmer and a Negro waiter named George W. Fullerton. Among the defendants, the jurors observed President Ned Depinet of RKO Distributing Corp., President George Schaefer of Paramount Pictures Distributing Co. and Warner Brothers' sleek little President Harry Warner who found it hard to conceal his chagrin when excited Lawyer Reed mistook his hat, which had fallen on the floor, for a spittoon, used it accordingly...
...races in 1895, has been won by Canada, Scotland and Norway. Last week, a fine summer's sailing on Long Island Sound reached its climax at Seawanhaka with a three-out-of-five series in which the challenger was Norna IV, Crown Prince Olav of Norway's sleek new six-metre boat, sailed by his friend Magnus Konow. The defender, which bore the confusing name of Challenge, was sailed by Cornelius Shields...