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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately for the visitors, this aeronautical wonder was too wonderful to be shown. Suave Dr. Lewis refused to say how much it would add to the speed of airplanes but it appeared the addition would be 20% to 30% over present design...
...engine cowling which can be used in 500-mile-an-hour airplanes. Cowlings of present design work all right at speeds under 325 m.p.h., but wind-tunnel tests show they cause a "compressibility burble" (violent eddy) above that speed, set up so much resistance that doubling or tripling engine horsepower adds no speed...
LONDON, May 5 (U.P.)-Great Britain informed Moscow today that at present she could not accept Russia's request for a military alliance with Britain and France...
Franklin Roosevelt's business appeasement policy is only nine months old but already it is a retarded infant. It was allegedly born in a confidential memo of Adolf Augustus Berle whose present job as Assistant Secretary of State does not prevent him from braintrusting all over the lot. It soon fell out of the arms of its nurse, Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, who in his oversold Des Moines speech last February failed to give it anything but words to teethe on. Last week those who should have loved the baby most dearly, shoved it in the face...
Deficit-financingwise: During the two War years, Government pumped an average of $11,000,000,000 a year of new money over & above its tax collections into the economy. This was four times its present rate of contribution...