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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Putting Senator Adams on a chilly spot did not finish the President's work. His secretariat sent out hundreds of letters to citizens anxious or angry about the cut. in which blame was heaped squarely upon Congress. One letter said: "The needs of WPA are very close to the President's heart...
While American engine builders have plugged away for years on the development of the air-cooled radial engine, now close to perfection, German designers have worked at the liquid-cooled, in-line power plant. Result for the U. S.: the radial engine, with cylinders ranged like the spokes of a wheel around a short crankshaft, has grown to such size that its drag on the high-speed airplane is now of alarming proportions. (Head resistance increases as the square of the speed, e.g., if speed is tripled, drag becomes nine times as great.) Results for German designers: the in-line...
...builder of high-output motors to stick to the development of the liquid-cooled straight-line engine is Allison Engineering Co. In its little plant close by Indianapolis' famed motor speedway, its engineers and craftsmen, working on small orders for the U. S. Army, have kept the spark of in-line design firing, are now ready to go places. Already powered by Allison V-12's is the Army's twin-motored fighter, the Airacuda. More recently, the 1,000-horsepower Allison was built into a modification of the Army's snub-nosed Curtiss...
...make him do an intelligent thing--and this on an urchin who has never been taught to use his mind." He and others shuddered at the mania for size which had seized the wealthier schools, the turning of headmasters into highly efficient administrative officers, the loss of close contact between student and teacher. And these evils have persisted and swelled, so that President Conant's report and the committee to study secondary teaching methods appear opportunely...
When Miss Prall, who had recently married Sherwood Anderson, came to New Orleans, Faulkner visited her, became Anderson's close friend. He turned to novels, under Anderson's influence, wrote Soldiers' Pay. Mrs. Anderson volunteered to get Sherwood to read the book, to recommend it to Publisher Horace Liveright if he liked it. Next day she brought it back, saying. "Sherwood says if he isn't required to read this, he'll try to get Liveright to publish it." Liveright accepted it, gave Faulkner advances of $200 apiece on the next two. He dashed...