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...Arrow Aircraft Corp. of Lincoln, Neb. claims it is waiting only for the financial aspects of its founding to be settled before going into mass production in a few weeks to fill the 1,000-odd orders for flivver planes it has on hand. Its plane is a conventional lightweight, low-wing monoplane. The Ford motor is set in reverse position so that the propeller is attached where the clutch normally is when the engine is used on an automobile. Ford Motor Co. has no connection with Arrow, sells motors in batches so that they cost Arrow but $150 apiece...
Significance. At the opening of the trial great interest focused on Prosecutor Vishinsky's blanket charge that the prisoners had operated hand-in-glove with Nazi agents and explicitly with those of Supreme Chief of the German Police Forces Herr Heinrich Himmler. Once this Mrs. de Vries (arrow...
...painted in black & orange in 12-ft. letters on the roofs of prominent barns, factories, warehouses, water tanks. Known as "air markers," they are normally visible from 4.000 ft., serve three purposes: 1) to identify the locale; 2) to give the north bearing; 3) to indicate, by a circle, arrow and numeral, the distance and direction of the nearest airport. By last week 58% of the U. S. was air-marked every 15 miles in every direction. Within a few months the entire nation will be thus tagged with a total of 16,000 air markers, almost none of which...
...Wells' contribution to filmlandia, "Things to Come" has passed out of the first run stage, but it is a sufficiently interesting film to justify a short excursion into the provinces. It is to be found in town at the Uptown Theatre, along with Bette Davis in "The Golden Arrow," which is old Michael Arlen stuff and not worthy of Miss Davis' manifold charms and talents...
That Parthian arrow was as cruel as it was inaccurate. Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, is "old" to be sure, 63 fateful years in all. But it has never been "shabby." Under the masterful direction of Col. Matt J. Winn, Churchill Downs . . . struggling with small means, was never "shabby" even in the old days. Under Col. Winn's guidance, each year the Downs's seating capacity has been added to and its comfort and its beauty increased. This year, with an expenditure of over $200,000 the entire Churchill Downs plant has been transformed until...