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...Engineering Projects, Inc., of Dayton, Ohio. Best guess as to the price: something less than $500,000, plus royalties. Named to head G. M.'s new Aeroproducts Division was Engineering Projects' president, 40-year-old Werner J. Blanchard. He has designed a constant-speed propeller with hollow hub for light cannon, now has under Army test a prop of new design with eight blades, four turning in each direction. If business warrants, G. M.'s research laboratory in Dayton will be expanded into a $5,000,000 factory...
...York managers sat up and took notice. Two months ago, when he knocked out Tippy Larkin in one round at Madison Square Garden for his tenth successive victory, knowing New York fight fans became aware of the latest pugilistic freak: a hollow-cheeked, sunken-eyed 132-pounder, with the legs of a flyweight, the shoulders of a lightweight, the forearms of a middleweight. Somewhere in those forearms there was an arsenal of TNT. Seven of his opponents in a row had fallen like tenpins...
...affair, a pint-sized Gallipoli, will probably lag far behind that proportion of losses. The rating of those who ordered it, and then countermanded it, will be even lower. The Germans saluted its departure with a furious effort to sink a battleship from the air, a loud but hollow claim of having done...
...Solemn-looking, thin and hollow-eyed, one of the richest men in the U. S. admitted in a Chicago Federal court last week that he was guilty of a crime. His crime: evasion of Federal income-tax payment in 1936. The criminal: Moses L. Annenberg (publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily Racing Form, etc., etc.). Maximum penalty: five years in jail, $10,000 fine. Without admitting Government charges (soon to be dismissed) that he or some of his companies had also evaded income taxes in 1931, '32, '33, '34, '35 and '37, Publisher Annenberg agreed...
Next day in Amsterdam, Netherlands Foreign Minister Eelco Nicholas van Kieffens, an extraordinarily thin man with big nose, little chin, thin hair, hollow eyes, called in Japan's Minister to The Netherlands Itaro Ishii and told him that The Netherlands Indies wanted no protection from anybody, thanks just the same. But meantime Jean Charles Pabst, Netherlands Minister to Japan, called on Mr. Arita to thank him for upholding the status quo. These contradictions were not the reaction Mr. Arita was most interested in hearing. That came two days later...