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Boston, it becomes increasingly evident, likes to insure in its theatre censors a fresh and unprejudiced approach to the task of keeping pure the morals of playgoers in the Athens of America. The retiring stage censor of the Hub, John M. Casey, received his training for the post as trap drummer in a vaudeville orchestra, while his newly-appointed successor, twenty-eight-year old Stanton M. White, has approached the dramatic muse through a career as "art photographer" and county pay-master. Still further assurance of his fitness for the post of thespian Cato in Boston is found...
...French International Colonial and Overseas Exposition has just been opened, on time, two months after Commissioner General Lyautey with his staff had personally journeyed by subway from the Place de I'Opera, hub of Paris, to the exposition gates. Time: 12 min. Nearly all the Marshal's victories have been like that, decisive, constructive (see below...
...Eaton's first big achievement after he had abandoned. in 1906, the idea of becoming a Baptist preacher). But more cash was needed and so he also gave to Continental Shares an additional holding in Cliffs Corp. which, because of its vast reserves of iron ore, was the hub of his steel plan?a plan which approached reality in 1930 with the formation of Republic Steel Corp., the third biggest steel company. And Continental Shares already had most of Mr. Eaton's rubber stocks, especially Goodyear...
Most enlightening report came from the Department of Commerce which carefully stipulated that it must not be construed as an official finding. The Department inspectors dug the engines out of the earth to find that the right outboard engine had no propeller blades nor propeller hub, although the safety nut which holds them in place was still intact. The hub must have been broken. If, as reported, ice collected on the wings then it may have collected on the propeller hub too. A piece of ice dislodged from the hub might have struck a whirling blade and broken...
...grey cap and overcoat, with a bulky bundle under his arm. He was looking for someone to try his latest invention-"a resistance eliminator, or anti-drag fan." Inventor Perry showed it: a 12-in. steel disc equipped with four scoop-like blades to be affixed to the spinner (hub) of an airplane propeller. "It makes a partial vacuum in front of the propeller," he explained. "It bores through the air. I got the idea five years ago from a posthole borer on my farm." Most pilots snickered, but good-natured Pilot Frank Steinman attached the device to the prop...