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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next election, abruptly announced he was quitting politics to become president of Title Guarantee & Trust Co. A newsman asked him: ''Do you mean you're disgusted with politics?" Snapped Mr. McKee: "You're telling me?" Credited with some part in kicking "Holy Joe," Tammany stumbling block, upstairs into a $50,000 job was Tammany's foxy little Boss John Francis Curry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 15, 1933 | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

...other tanks each holding 2,000,000 cu. ft. under pressure; a locomotive shed, ice-making plant, quarters for married officers, "BOQ"' (bachelor officers' quarters), enlisted men's barracks, recreation building, all in Spanish architecture. Most remarkable is the dock which measures about three city blocks long, one block wide and 18 stories high. Like the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock its ends are closed by enormous orange-peel doors. Each "peel" weighs 400 tons, is moved by a 250-h. p. motor. An inclined elevator leads from the "deck" (floor) to the roof. Out of each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: LTA | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

Answer 4. Devaluation of the dollar, which the President was all against three weeks ago, he is now willing to consider- partly to please the ardent inflation block developing in Congress, and more important, to solve the problems of international exchange. But having cut the gold content of the dollar to 80? who can be sure that he will not cut it again to 60?. So the question remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Riding the Wave | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...doubly important to Naval aviation in view of the President's determination to dispense with the services of an Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. But flying Captain Kingachieved fame on the bottom of the sea. When the S-51 went down in 132ft. of water off Block Island in 1925 most Navy men thought it was there to stay. There were no precedents, no equipment for raising a 1,000-ton submarine from deep water in the open sea. Nonetheless a salvaging expedition under Captain King, then commander of the Submarine Base at New London, went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: King for Moffett | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...charts, tables, operations reports. He makes frequent trips to the Sikorsky plant at Bridgeport, Conn. and the Glenn L. Martin factory in Balti more, to watch progress on big flying boats abuilding for Pan American. Every Tues day, and often on other days, he goes up the street a block from the Chanin Building to the Graybar, to his duties as technical chairman of Transcontinental & West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Lindberghs Fly | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

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