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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holdover Chief. Every year since he became Chief of Staff in 1930, General Douglas MacArthur had vainly pleaded for funds to build the military establishment up to what he considered minimum requirements. Just as success seemed about to come to him, his four-year tour of duty, fixed by law, ran out last November. By an unprecedented executive order, President Roosevelt continued General MacArthur in office indefinitely to help Secretary of War Dern press the Army's "modernization" plans before Congress...
...Seattle, the 15,000-ton steamer North Haven prepared to leave with 300 carloads of material to build the bases...
Still a closely guarded mystery last week, this much had leaked out about XP3D-1. It was ordered by the Navy, took a year to build, is considered by Douglas its major engineering achievement. So big that a pit had to be dug in the factory to accommodate its hull, the ship was also too big to be assembled in the company's hangar which is large enough to hold several Douglas transports. XP3D-1 has two 830-h.p. Twin Wasp motors, 100-ft. wingspread, carries eight men, six machine guns, two tons of bombs. Although not armored. XP3D...
...wily little Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, real estate man, boarded a Manhattan plane for Miami. In Miami, Producer Schenck, who said he was also acting for MGM's Louis B. Mayer, proposed that Florida- which recently ratified an amendment exempting cinema companies from taxes for 15 years-should also build $10,000,000 worth of cinema studios by popular subscription, rent them to cinema companies for $250,000 a year. Producer Schenck explained his extraordinary plan...
...only other land transaction between Cambridge and the University in recent years was on an exchange basis when the City obtained the square on which to build the New Central Fire Station. This is the first request that the municipal authorities have made to Harvard outside an humble petition that the College should pay some taxes...