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Humiliated by these elections, the A. F. of L. roared its protest when President Roosevelt renewed the Automobile Code, extending it to the legal date of NRA's expiration, June 16. The President did not consult the A. F. of L., did not stipulate a 30-hr. week, did not abolish the hated merit clause. But what galled the Federation most was that, in renewing the Code, the President provided that the Wolman Board should continue to be binding on the industry...
USSR's famed Maxim Gorki (ANT-20), world's largest landplane, contains a complete sound cinema projection booth in addition to a broadcasting studio, rotary printing press (capacity: 10,000 papers per hr.), photo-engraving plant, etc. But Maxim Gorki's projector is used on the ground, to show propaganda films in territory where cinemansions are unknown...
...have been seriously injured once are usually too wary of the puck to be of much use thereafter. Chabot proved an exception. Traded to Toronto, he helped that team win the Stanley Cup in 1932, the following year guarded its net throughout the longest hockey game on record (2 hr., 44 min.) which the Maple Leafs won, 1-to-0. Last year he played for the Montreal Canadiens. Before this season started he and three hockey-player friends went on a fishing trip. In a village saloon, one of them picked up a paper which contained the news that Chabot...
Wearing his lion-skin coat, Roscoe Turner took off from Miami for New York (1,200 mi.) last week, ostensibly to break Rickenbacker's transport record of 8 hr. 36 min. With him in the United Air Lines' Boeing in which he placed third in the England-Australia air race last autumn was United's Traffic Manager Harold Crary. An hour after Turner's departure a regular Eastern Air Liner took off from Miami with twelve passengers. Pilot Dick Merrill refueled at Charleston, picked up a tailwind at Richmond, scooted into Newark at 227 m.p.h...
...oldtime mail pilot is TWA's youngish Harry C. ("Skippy") Taylor. His was the fastest transport flight of the week. With 14 passengers in a TWA Douglas he rode a 60-mi. tailwind from Chicago to Newark (743 mi.) in 2 hr. 54 min., averaged better than four miles a minute...