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...road outside Faribault, Minn., one night last week Walter Magee, St. Paul contractor, saw automobile headlights blink four times. He stopped his car, lifted out two cardboard boxes full of money and drove off leaving them in the middle of the highway. To the stack of cash was attached a note...
...College booklets on concentration and distribution strongly urge candidates for distinction in the various fields to elect at least one course "primarily for Graduates." If this is meant seriously, it should be called to the attention of the stack authorities, with a view to removing one of the reasons why Widener and its temperamental staff is a major irritant to a capable undergraduate trying to do the little advanced work that the teaching authorities urge him toward...
...shot fired in New York could be heard everywhere, and if an airplane designed by Engineer John Stack left New York at the same instant, the airplane would reach San Francisco how long after the sound of the shot...
...later the noise of the explosion would echo up San Francisco's Market Street and just 76 minutes after that the airplane would swish down upon San Francisco Bay, at a landing speed of 103 m. p. h. It would, that is. if Engineer John Stack knows how to use a wind tunnel and a slide rule...
...Engineer Stack works in the Langley Field. Va. laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Last week his latest study of high-speed flight was published in the initial issue of Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences. Engineer Stack concluded that a properly streamlined monoplane, using an existing type of engine (e. g. a 2,300-h. p. Rolls-Royce) would fly 544 m. p. h., or 72% as fast as the speed of sound. Such a ship would have a tubular fuselage 40 in. in diameter, a single tapered wing of 29 ft. span. Its surface would be perfectly...