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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...
...Kung, China's Minister of Finance. Loans he got, both in Switzerland, The Netherlands and Britain but just how much no one could say. They were enough at least for him to visit Vienna where he trotted about happily in a green Tyrolean hat complete with feather, placing munitions orders. From Vienna he retired to famed Bad Nauheim to rest. But there was no rest for Japanese financiers. Last week they were desperately ordering from abroad not scrap iron but finished steel (more quickly convertible into war materials) and to pay for it they were already beginning to ship...
...Berry was editor of the Cornell Widow in the time of George Jean Nathan, then practiced law in Manhattan, returned to Ithaca to direct athletics and establish himself as a campus character, famed for his brown tweed hat with grouse feather. What little writing he did was for local, college or farm papers. The New Yorker tried him out for two weeks in May, with instant success. Sensing in his work some of the curious detachment that marked Andy White's "Notes and Comment," The New Yorker persuaded Rym Berry to leave campus & farm, to come to town...
Easy Living (Paramount). When Mary Smith (Jean Arthur) is riding downtown on top of a Fifth Avenue bus, a sable coat lands on her head. Enraged because the feather in her hat is broken, she insists that J. B. Ball (Edward Arnold), who threw the coat out of his penthouse to enrage his wife, buy her a new hat. He does so. In her new finery, Mary Smith loses her job, makes friends with an amiable young automat waiter (Ray Milland) and, to her amazement, receives an offer of free lodging in a swank hotel, which she and the waiter...