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...boys built several more planes and gliders with help from their rich families. In 1918 Juan built the world's second tri-motor. The test pilot crashed it by flying too low too slow. This rammed into the young designer's mind the two prime weaknesses of airplanes: they are utterly dependent upon their motors; they need lots of room to land or take off. Juan de la Cierva resolved to remove these flaws, began toying with helicopters (planes with the propeller faced vertically). He got the idea of disconnecting the helicopter propeller from the engine, enlarging...
...open the program the Glee Club will sing the Bach Choral. "Awake Thou Wintry Earth", followed by the madrigal "Fire, Fire, My Heart" by Morley. Third comes an Italian student song "Nu Semmo Tri Duttur", by Bazchieri...
There is much that is obscure and troublesome in the new tri-partite agreement between France, Britain, and the United Stats. It was, for example, confusing and irrelevent for Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to drag the Russian herring across the trail and speak of a "raid" upon the pound when the Soviet Bank was merely carrying on a pre-arranged commercial transaction of minor proportions. And neither is it especially clarifying to approach the agreement from the political side, to glory in the "offensive" upon dictatorships by democratic countries...
...they ask pharmacologists to produce a potable bismuth like the drink Professor Hanzlik announced. In his potion, which 200 San Franciscans have found harmless, which 40 San Francisco syphilitics have found beneficial, the solution is sodium bismuthate; the solvent, a mixture of propylene glycol and a new substance called tri-iso-propanolamine...
Considering the fact that snow-planing costs no more than regular flying, the sport is certainly not over-expensive. An approved pair of airplane skis can be obtained for as little as $180. Admiral Byrd paid upwards of $1100 for a pair on his giant tri-motored ship...