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Sirs: TIME, until now fair and accurate where Sikorsky Aircraft are concerned, goes into a flat spin when in the Oct. 7 issue under Transport it refers to the Sikorsky Clipper as "Far outmoded by the new Martin Clipper, which has three times as much carrying power." Every schoolboy knows the Martin boat is some 25% larger than the Sikorsky and that carrying power-whatever this may be-cannot vary far from this ratio. The size is not everything. Pan American Airways, for whom both boats were built, has placed goodly orders for Sikorsky Clippers, some of them within...
...spin around the triangular course got going, it seemed their choice was wise. Out into the lead of the five other planes shot Turner, ''polishing pylons" with his usual wizardry. For nine out of the ten laps he apparently had the race won. Suddenly, near the finish, the crowd was stunned to see a thick black plume of smoke belch from his Hornet motor as an oil-line clogged. Out of the race dropped Favorite Turner, managing to land safely in his oil-spattered racer. Into the lead went steady Mister Mulligan to win in the slow time...
...mediocre poetry and novels, speaking five languages, and teasing his 4 ft.-11 in. wife by putting her on a closet shelf from which she is too small to clamber down. Neither his domestic eccentricities nor his tennis technique - awkward but effective volleying, a serve with a pronounced top spin - seem adequate grounds for his reaching the finals unless he catches one or more opponents...
...tried for two weeks to spin it and couldn't," said Director Vidal in officially accepting the plane for his department. Even had they succeeded, the Arrowplane would have righted itself automatically after two turns...
...into receivership, and Mrs. Cosden, without an automobile to her name, gamely went to work as an interior decorator. In 1933 Josh Cosden bought in his company at a receiver's sale for $501,000. Again his loyal friends were sure that his luck was due for another spectacular spin...