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...farmers, private forecasters get theirs from a smaller number of correspondents all through the wheat belt?farmers, bankers, professional men, grain brokers, millers. Every correspondent receives a questionnaire each month asking the condition of the crop in his neighborhood. Before answering he generally takes a spin in his car through the fields, carefully inspecting the stand for blight, damage from drought or rain, condition of the kernel. He makes his report to the forecaster on the basis of percentage of normal?normal being the long-range average yield. Since the forecasters already know how many acres have been planted...
Dapper, debonair, lavishly educated abroad, Clarence Hungerford Mackay continued to spin the web his father had begun until it was a $120,000,000 world-wide system. Then, after presiding over Western Union's only competitor for a quarter century, he sold out in 1928 to International Telephone & Telegraph which, under the direction of the Brothers Behn, was gobbling up communication companies in all the world's corners. As I. T. & T. has since learned, the Postal System was no bargain...
...proving ground at Dahlgren, Va. for final acceptance tests. Carefully "beefed up" to withstand the terrific strain of power dives and pullouts, the ship was built to outperform and outfight any combat plane in existence. Gehlbach took it up 12,000 ft., kicked it over into a tight spin. The plane never came...
...model was balanced on a pin atop a long pole in the centre of the tunnel. Then an uprush of air whirled the little plane around until it was spinning free. What happened after the pole was removed left observers spellbound. Clockwork mechanism in the model's fuselage, set in advance, was timed to actuate the controls and set tiny lights flashing if the the cockpit. The model's ingenious efforts to recover from the spin began in orthodox fashion, with reverse rudder. Simultaneously, a green light flashed. Then a red light flashed, and the flippers flopped down...
...ingenuity, the little plane failed to come out of the spin, plunged instead into a net. So impressive was the demonstration, however, that the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics decided to use the tunnel to determine spin characteristics of its new Grumman Fighter, before permitting that risky ship to be flown by any more test pilots (see above...