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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...
This is the question posed by a front-page editorial entitled "Right of Petition" appearing in the current issue of Boston Review, eight-page Hub political dape sheet...
...knows his business. He has sat at his counter for more than twenty years, watching many generations of Harvard men come and go. And he has seen palmier days. Once he had some claim to celebrity. Then the Hub, down in Boston, was his stamping ground, and he played in all the local tournaments. For one reason or another he never did go into the nationals, yet he has squared off with the best of them in exhibition matches. Hoppe, Schaeffer, and Adijohn--he recalls them all, when "they were pretty good, but still had a lot to learn...
...Norwegian High Command claimed that one of the Germans' two pounding drives up through central Norway--the one up the Gudbrands Valley to a point about 120 miles directly south of Trondheim--had been halted 35 miles south of Dombaas, communications hub and a key to Trondheim...
...Machinery begins to create employment before it ever produces. Example: to build a $115,000 machine for stamping hub caps required 16,428 man-days. For Ford it does the work of 2,160 men, cuts cost of a hub cap from $2.50 handmade to 12? Ford made. If all such technological improvements were eliminated cost of a Ford would top $17,000, most of Ford's 125,000 workers would have no jobs...