Word: feathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boat train for Brussels, carrying with him assurances that Great Britain, and France as well, would release Belgium from the Locarno Treaty obligations of 1925 and the Anglo-Franco-Belgian agreement of March 19, 1936 by which Belgium promised to help defend Britain and France against attack. Chief feather in the Diplomat-King's cap was agreement of the British and French Governments to maintain their end of the pact, namely, to aid Belgium if attacked...
...while he was poking about in the Ituri forest of the Belgian Congo, young Ornithologist James P. Chapin came upon a grinning black native proudly wearing in his headdress a brown and black feather. Dr. Chapin promptly appropriated it, for it resembled the feather of a pheasant, or peacock, and those birds, both Asiatic, had no business in Africa...
Stupid Democracies. No small feather in the Führer's bonnet this year was the attendance of virtually the entire Berlin diplomatic corps for a 48-hour flying visit to the Party Congress-hitherto boycotted by democratic diplomats. Noticeable absentees last week, however, were the Papal Nuncio, the Soviet Ambassador. Conspicuous among the foreign envoys were sad-eyed Prentiss Bailey Gilbert, U. S. Charge d'Affaires (who attended over the vehement protest of his chief, vacationing Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd), who is expected soon to resign, Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson, British Ambassador, and Andr...
Last week's deal with Consumer Distribution Corp. was a feather in the cap of philanthropic Merchant Filene, who since 1909 has been preaching the gospel of co-operative retail merchandising, financing co-ops through the uncooperative profits from Filene's Department Store. Consumer Distribution Corp. is the first enterprise of a new $1,000,000, Filene-financed corporation formed a year and a half ago to establish a nation-wide league of U. S. cooperatives. It will run Greenbelt's general store, food and meat market, drugstore, cinemansion, barber shop, garage and milk route. Prices will...
Until recently Hamilton has had a virtual monopoly of the propeller business. Lately, however, it and its most formidable rival, famed old Curtiss-Wright Corp., have been seeking another propeller improvement-full feathering of the blades. Curtiss-Wright devised an electric motor which nestles in the hub of the propeller and changes the pitch to any angle from o° to 90° whenever the pilot wishes. If an engine fails, the pilot merely adjusts the propeller pitch to 90°, which means that the blades feather (present a streamlined knife-edge to the wind), do not revolve. This...