Word: prop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...design of airplane propellers. Until 1933 there had been only two major improvements in the paper airscrew invented by Leonardo da Vinci some 450 years before to pull toy helicopters to the ceiling of his study. One was the Wright Brothers' development of a two-bladed '"prop" of laminated wood, the other the shift in the 19205 to aluminum alloy blades whose pitch could be adjusted on the ground to suit various operating conditions. In 1933 the Hamilton Standard Propellers division of United Aircraft Corp. won the Collier Trophy by producing the first controllable pitch propeller...
...Dancer Toto Leverne, who appeared five times a day with no covering other than a stuffed swan (TIME, July 13). When it was decided to carry the fair into its second season, Manager Lincoln Griffith Dickey thought that perhaps hundreds of almost naked girls might be a better prop than one entirely bare one. The logical man to call in was Billy Rose. His contract was reported to be $100,000 for 101 days...
...liberal wing of the Court, would retire at the same time, but Mr. Brandeis was adamant. He would not retire while the Court was under fire. So Mr. Van Devanter retired single-handed,* giving the President opportunity to appoint a liberal in his place. Thus he pulled a second prop from beneath the President's position, for liberals in Congress felt there was still less need for enlarging the Court to insure a liberal majority. Result: the one promising chance of the President's getting his plan approved dwindled until the odds were slightly against it and there...
...Alice Faye), who has outdistanced both, to nurse Eddie's self-esteem along to a point at which the knowledge that he is a radio sensation will not totally disrupt his poise, which is still barely sufficient to permit him to sing into what he thinks is a prop microphone in his girl friend's sitting room...
Franco for Fascism-Had not Benito Mussolini, the Founder of Fascism, thus brought everyone up to date on what Fascism is in 1937-namely not the handy prop for Capitalism it was once pictured, but a dynamic social force-the significance of where Spain's leaders stood last week would have been much less clear. They were suddenly and squarely asked where they stood by Roy Wilson Howard, one of the most usefully inquisitive executives journalism has yet produced...