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...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, ''the gearshift of the air." This allowed a pilot to change propeller pitch during flight and achieve maximum propeller efficiency both at take-off and at high speed. A further refinement was the constant speed propeller, which changes pitch automatically...
...Washington last week Juan Terry Trippe, affable, granitic president of Pan American Airways, received from the hands of President Roosevelt the bronze certificate of award of the Collier Trophy, bestowed every year for distinguished service to aviation. The trophy itself, a lush piece of statuary two feet high, stood on the President's desk. The National Aeronautic Association, which decides each year's winner, awarded the trophy this year to Pan American Airways for "establishment of the trans-Pacific airline and the successful execution of extended over-water navigation and the regular navigation thereof." Trumpeted Collier...
Those who will serve as proctors for the first time are Thomas H. Bilodeau '37; William L. Cary 1G.B.; John I. Coddington '24; Francis G. Collier, assistant in History; Roderick H. Cox; Phillip Dur '35, 1G; Henry Lloyd '37; William N. Locks 1G; John Lydenberg; Anderson Page '37; Malcolm D. Perkins '36, 1L; Cecil F. Rowe 1L; Norris P. Swett '37; and John W. Thompson, assistant in Fatigue Laboratory...
...Five O'Clock, Off California-" was not only a cracking Post piece but one more example of the uncanny Post prescience which has seemingly operated in an astonishing number of cases to link its articles with red-hot, unpredictable news. It was natural enough that the Post, like Collier's, should run a dirigible article at about the time of the Hindenburg's first voyage of the spring season.* But only by luck did the Post article deal with disaster...
HARVARD TUFTS McTernen, cf 3b,Silvestri Lupien, lb ss, Spath Bilodeau, ss c., Acorra Owen, 3b 2b, Collier Sullivan, rf rf, Tominey Colwell, c cf, Philpott Allen, lf 1b, Colclough Grondahl, 2b lf, Lillis Walsh or Curtiss, p p, Galuska or Wojciochowski...