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Test Pilot Skeets Coleman started the Allison turboprop engine (5,500 h.p.), and the two counterrotating propellers roared like an indoor tornado. Climbing at about 2.5 ft. per second (a slow walk), the plane rose 60 ft. under perfect control. The restraining cables, hanging slack, were not necessary; Pilot Coleman rose and descended three times, hanging on his prop for 15 minutes and landing on the exact spot from which he took...
...Barking Dog. The references to espionage in the current investigation are not Jenkins' first brush with that subject. 'In 1950 he was appointed by a federal judge to defend Alfred Dean Slack, who was accused of delivering secret information from the Holston Ordnance Works at Kingsport, Tenn. to a Communist agent. On advice of counsel, Slack pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 15 years. Then he appealed, contending that Jenkins had not advised him properly. The Circuit Court, ruling that Jenkins had done his job well, gave him an unusual accolade. Said the opinion: " [Jenkins] has earned and enjoys...
...plans, by themselves, have not stabilized employment. The companies had to stabilize employment first by drastically changing production and selling methods. For example: Procter & Gamble provided warehouses to store its soap and shortening in slack seasons and campaigned to get wholesalers to level out their buying...
...steel it buys) if it could find a way to get around the public's habit of buying cars in the spring and making the old one do during slumps. To even out buying, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther once suggested a sliding price scale with lower prices in slack seasons. But there is already such a sliding scale because of bigger trade-in allowances and discounts during the winter. And the industry is still subject to the ups and downs of boom and recession, which could easily exhaust G.A.W. funds...
Canada's economy has been blooming with health for so long that the slightest flutter tends to inspire chills and fever among the nation's businessmen and politicians. Last week the Bank of Montreal reported that, Canada, like the U.S., was experiencing "mild recessionary tendencies." A slack winter season in coal, steel, textiles and farm implements had pushed unemployment to a postwar high of 312,000 in late February. Foreign-trade experts were mildly concerned as the international trade deficit ($467 million last year) extended into...