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Oakland to Stead: The manifold pressure. In other words, use your props.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trip 6 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Oakland to Stead: Increase it till you get seventeen hundred. . . . Put your props to cruise at seventeen hundred and then increase the pressure with your throttle.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trip 6 | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Swinging swiftly in a wide arc he squared away for a landing, let down his landing gear. Then came some more of the sort of bad luck that has dogged new Army ships of late. As Pilot Kelsey suddenly realized that he was falling short, he opened his throttles to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sleek, Fast and Luckless | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

< Partial list of props used up at each performance of Hellzapoppin: a dozen bananas, a dozen eggs, three dozen balloons, three dozen carnations, five pounds of beans, 150 pounds of ice. three window panes, one box of candy, one straw hat.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Show Business: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Died. Gustav A. Weidhaas, 62, Broadway's No. 1 creator of stage "props" and trick effects; of heart disease; in Bronxville, N. Y. Sometime master handyman for Belasco, Ziegfeld, Joe Cook and Billy Rose, Weidhaas manufactured such varied marvels as the dragon for the Metropolitan Opera's Siegfried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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