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Down over his balding head Igor Sikorsky pulled his too-small hat. With his right hand on the control stick, his feet on the rudder pedals, he grasped with his left hand the lever that controls the lift of the motor by varying the pitch of the blades. Mechanics (who had held the helicopter with ropes while Designer Sikorsky learned to fly it) backed away. He pulled back the pitch control lever. Into the air jumped Sikorsky's bug. Fifteen to 20 feet off the ground it came to a stop, hung there. Sikorsky moved the control stick forward...
Commander in Chief Roosevelt meantime plunged ahead with his plans to up U. S. aircraft and engine capacity to 50,000 military planes a year. Two facts about this mighty project were known at week's end: 1) Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau had hired able, motor-wise Dr. George Jackson Mead of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics to standardize military engine models, up production by bringing as many plants as possible into a field now limited largely to two companies (Pratt & Whitney, division of United Aircraft; Curtiss-Wright); 2) Mr. Morgenthau, Federal Lender Jesse Jones, Tommy...
...would have to go in surface transports. British mines threaten these, so before the parachutists take off Phase 2 of the German plan would be minesweeping. Several narrow channels through the minefields might be swept in one dark night. The Nazi minesweepers would be guarded by swift, shallow-draft motor torpedo boats. Light units of the British Fleet would face a test of vigilance and daring that night and the next dawn, when the transports and their German naval and air escorts set out on William the Conqueror's path...
Ballet dates from the lace-pants centuries, when kings and nobles were its patrons. Modern balletomanes, a tribe with a better-than-average quota of lacy characters, could probably think of likelier patrons of the ballet than Big Business-especially such a big business as Ford Motor Co. Yet at the New York World's Fair, Ford became the ballet's first industrial patron by launching a 17-minute production called A Thousand Times Neigh. A free show, performed twelve times a day in a plushy new $500,000 theatre in the Ford building, the ballet is done...
Before the motor...