The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 86National Geographic Society, 1944 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 150
... record for single - seated gliders in 1934 when he made a cloud flight of 158 miles . Another famous peacetime glider was Lewin B. Barringer , who broke Du Pont's record in 1938 when he flew from Wichita Falls , Texas , to Tulsa ...
... record for single - seated gliders in 1934 when he made a cloud flight of 158 miles . Another famous peacetime glider was Lewin B. Barringer , who broke Du Pont's record in 1938 when he flew from Wichita Falls , Texas , to Tulsa ...
Page 276
... record things mov- ing too fast for the unaided eye to see and can almost literally stretch out the passage of time and slow it down for easier study . High - speed movies found the trouble in a machine gun caused by the firing pin ...
... record things mov- ing too fast for the unaided eye to see and can almost literally stretch out the passage of time and slow it down for easier study . High - speed movies found the trouble in a machine gun caused by the firing pin ...
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... record output on record output . Tanks . Trucks . Planes . Ships . Guns . Am- munition . And , most important of all , engines . " Boss " ( Charles F. ) Kettering , of General Motors , said at the beginning of the war : " Horsepower is ...
... record output on record output . Tanks . Trucks . Planes . Ships . Guns . Am- munition . And , most important of all , engines . " Boss " ( Charles F. ) Kettering , of General Motors , said at the beginning of the war : " Horsepower is ...
Contents
Britain Fights in the Fields By FRANCIS A FLOOD | 31 |
Once a Culinary Stepchild Today a Gulf Coast Industry By HARLAN | 53 |
With a Review of The Societys | 66 |
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