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Dates: during 1930-1930
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What the Government does afford an Army Air Corps captain is a minimum basic pay of $2,000, a flying bonus of 50%, and to a single man maintenance of $696 yearly, totaling $3,696. The salary of the Navy's aviation lieutenants, senior grade (corresponding to the Army captain) is minimum basic pay of $2,400, a flying bonus of 50%, and single maintenance of $939, totaling $4,539. In both services, married men get bigger maintenance, old-timers receive slightly higher salaries. But transport pilots for huge airlines receive as much as $500 a month, equivalent...
...Basic principle of "free-wheeling": When the car rolls faster than the engine is turning over, the rear wheels are automatically disengaged from the engine. Bicycle makers long ago incorporated this principle in the "coaster" brake. In the automobile it amounts to an automatic shifting to neutral whenever the engine threatens to act as a brake on the car. When the engine is desired as a brake aid, an auxiliary gear is ready for the purpose on the new Studebaker...
While many an old industry sagged last week under the steady pressure of depression, a new one finished a phenomenal first half-year, looked forward to acceleration during the next six months. Furnishing no basic commodity or luxury product, it helps supply the one U. S. demand which no depression can diminish-the demand for new amusements...
Radio has been the basic feature of most recent aids to avigation?range-finders, compasses, fog "eyes" and the like...
...Basic cause of market weakness was the continued fall in commodity prices. Nearly every basic commodity was selling at a lower price than during any other post-War year, and some of the most deflated were going back to the beginning of the 20th Century. Years in which various commodities sold for approximately their current prices...