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When the Connecticut Nutmeg reached its readers last week, it carried an enthusiastic boost for a stubby "flivver" biplane by illustrious Frank Hawks, pacemaker to U. S. commercial aviation. For his Nutmeg contribution he had been promised a year's subscription to the paper. "Fool-proof," wrote Frank Hawks of the Gwinn "Aircar" behind which for the last year he had been putting all his reputation and energy. "It will not spin and it will not stall. . . . With only an hour or two of instruction any average person (even the intelligentsia) can fly our ship. . . . A development that should...
...month experimental license the Commission gave Powel Crosley Jr. the right to raise the broadcasting power of his Cincinnati station (WLW) from the U. S. maximum of 50,000 watts to 500,000 watts. Reason: to find out how much radio service the listener might gain (from the power boost) and lose (through interference with smaller stations). Enterprising Broadcaster Crosley spent $396,287 on his 500-kw. transmitter. When he put it into daily operation in May 1934, WLW was heard satisfactorily over 13 States and part of Canada...
...Catholic Charities sent the shy little dwarf to New Orleans Charity Hospital, where for two years she took large dally doses of the growth-stimulating hormones, thyroid and pituitary extract. Quick as a cornstalk Eula shot up. Last week she reached 59 inches, 92 pounds. Doctors thought they could boost her up another few inches but healthy Eula was content. Said she proudly, if incorrectly: "I'm taller than Helen Hayes." (Miss Hayes's height: five feet...
...uncooked citron is highly perishable, Grower Hart will not wait for fall when processors begin buying for the holiday season. Instead, he will process most of the 1938 crop himself, and this, he expects, will boost his profits. Fresh citron sells for 5? to 8? a lb.; after processing it brings 20? to 25?; retailers charge 39? to 45?. Mr. Hart will sell direct to West Coast grocers, will distribute nationally through Calavo Growers of California, cooperative wholesalers with 35 outlets throughout the U. S. Meanwhile, he is interesting food research groups. At present they are trying to prove that...
...shouldered, multichinned General Cedillo, onetime Mexican bandit who rode with famed Pancho Villa, has been Strong-man in San Luis Potosí for some 20 years. His private agrarian army, which he maintains on his extensive Potosí landholdings, helped boost Señor Cárdenas into the Presidency in 1934 and Señor Cedillo became Minister of Agriculture. The General, however, opposed the land expropriation Cárdenas program. Nine months ago he resigned in a huff. With cries of "Fascist" from Mexican Laborites and left-wingers ringing in his ears, the old "Bull of Potos...