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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunning's basic innovation was "countervailing duties." If the U. S. duty on cold storage eggs is raised or lowered to X¢ per dozen, then the Canadian duty on U. S. cold storage eggs automatically goes to X¢. From the Liberal standpoint of preferring to have free trade, the Dunning scheme looks like an honest effort to set Canadian duties no higher than "circumstances make necessary" and to lower them again at the first sign of "cooperation" from the U. S. or other high-tariff countries...
What the Government does afford an Army Air Corps captain is a minimum basic pay of $2,000, a flying bonus of 50%, and to a single man maintenance of $696 yearly, totaling $3,696. The salary of the Navy's aviation lieutenants, senior grade (corresponding to the Army captain) is minimum basic pay of $2,400, a flying bonus of 50%, and single maintenance of $939, totaling $4,539. In both services, married men get bigger maintenance, old-timers receive slightly higher salaries. But transport pilots for huge airlines receive as much as $500 a month, equivalent...
...Basic principle of "free-wheeling": When the car rolls faster than the engine is turning over, the rear wheels are automatically disengaged from the engine. Bicycle makers long ago incorporated this principle in the "coaster" brake. In the automobile it amounts to an automatic shifting to neutral whenever the engine threatens to act as a brake on the car. When the engine is desired as a brake aid, an auxiliary gear is ready for the purpose on the new Studebaker...
Though an innovation among U. S. cars, "free wheeling" is a commonplace abroad. It is standard or optional equipment on a long list of cars including the Austin 12, Citroen, Humber, Chenard-Walcker, Renault. Studebaker, which also has announced a price-cut on its sixes, holds basic patents for its particular free-wheeling device...
Radio has been the basic feature of most recent aids to avigation?range-finders, compasses, fog "eyes" and the like...