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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Naval officers sided with the Admiral. They still had tongues in cheek when Charles Edison finally had the Navy award prizes for the best U. S. mosquito and subchaser designs (TIME, April 10), later let contracts to U. S. manufacturers for four 110-to 174-foot chasers eight 59-to 81-foot mosquitoes. Last week the Navy's Brass Hats ate crow. They conceded that: 1) their civilian Secretary was right, and 2) they now had to turn to the British for the best mosquito boats...
Great Britain's famed, red-haired racer and designer, Hubert Scott-Paine, last September demonstrated a 70-foot, triple-engined mosquito which could lug two torpedo tubes, two guns, a crew of 16, at 47 knots (54.1 miles) per hour-well above the best speeds expected from the U. S. boats still abuilding. For eleven mosquitoes and twelve subchasers based on "Ginger Dick" Scott-Paine's designs, the Navy last week let a $5,000,000 contract to the Electric Boat Co., which makes most of the Navy's submarines. When these and the twelve...
...begun to sputter like a fish fry. What started it was a love feast ten long years ago. In 1929 Mrs. Verinda Brown had sat down at the paradisal table set by Father Divine with chicken, ham, potatoes, rice, corn, cabbage, scalloped tomatoes, hominy, carrots, beets, a two-foot cheese, five different kinds of pie, ice cream, and "two cakes as big as automobile tires." After three hours, she rose and cried: "I feel different than when I came...
...chance that it might be, police photographed everything in sight, prepared to make meticulous reports to the German Embassy in Washington, moved through the six rooms foot by foot. Books and letters were everywhere-most in German, many on nudism. There were scores of photographs of naked men, many middleaged. Neighbors had noted that no women went to see black-haired, squat Dr. Engelberg; that his servants were men, his numerous visitors were...
...union is not only shady--it is dictatorial. Controlling all the Boston theatres except the Repertory, which now shows only movies, it forces producers to accept its inordinate demands, or get out. As an instance, sets being shifted from the Colonial to the Plymouth, separated by a fifteen foot alley, have to be brought to the door by one set of stagemen and put into trucks by special loaders; a second group of loaders then takes the scenery out of the trucks, and gives it to a second set of stagemen. Also, non-union orchestra men or conductors...