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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1946
Page
20
North Wales Pa reports Kellet Craft Corp announces a two rotor engined helicopter variant designed for commercial service. The craft, the 2, carries 10 passengers plus a two man crew or one ton cargo, with a gross weight around 11 600 pounds.
William Ulrich and Carl Pardee two half brothers built a 140 horsepower hand made turbine car on display in Laramie Wyoming. unofficially clocked at 214.9 mph on the Bonneville salt flats the craft uses a railton 500 horsepower engine and weighs over 3000 pounds. with a current 140 horsepower engine it reaches 110 mph and gets eight to twelve mpg.
W Walace Kellest, president, said the helicopter KH-2 can operate on a field the size of a baseball diamond. Developed from Army XR 10 experiments, no price is set. Operating costs suggest initial passenger rates would mirror taxicab trips for equal distances.
In Brookings Oregon unsold Easter lilies are seen as a potential perfume ingredient. H. T. James, secretary of the Curry County growers association, has visited San Francisco to interest perfume manufacturers in extracting essence from leftover flowers after wartime demand. Petal waste previously rotted in fields attracting pests that harmed new bulbs.
Champaign Illinois UPI reports Dr F H Finea of the University of Illinois finds high school students remain as intelligent as past generations. He notes 14 percent of the 14 18 age group attended high school in 1900 versus 73 percent in 1940 while arguing improvements in education and home life offset earlier concerns about reduced ability.
Tomato juice gains taste by standing for several hours with chopped onion, celery, basil and tarragon. Before serving, strain and serve cold with lemon or lime.
Fifty three giant fans will ventilate New York City's Brooklyn Battery tunnel. BFL Sturtevant Co division of Westinghouse Electric won the contract. Production starts at Sturtevant Boston plant in Hyde Park. over 100 motors to be built at Westinghouse East Pittsburgh plant. Construction of the first underwater vehicle tunnel between Manhattan and Brooklyn was resumed last November after a three year wartime pause.
Completed twin tubes 31 feet in diameter and one and three quarter miles long will form the United States' longest underwater ventilated vehicular tunnel. The project began in October 1940.
University of Chicago education professor William S. Gray says children in Detroit seventh and eighth grades are distinctly superior readers to students in 1928. He notes past teachers demanded intensive reading and attributes current progress to improved instruction.
A public figure urges readers to diversify their study: read widely and intensively for a broader range of purposes. The call emphasizes expanding horizons and applying knowledge to varied contexts.
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