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...horsepower radial. Among liquid-cooled makers, Lycoming and Continental are working hard on engines that some airmen hope will be good for pursuit. Henry Ford is plugging at two different high-powered, liquid-cooled engines (besides air-cooled Pratt & Whitneys, which he is making on contract). Allison has been long at work on a 24-cylinder, liquid-cooled engine that should develop around 2,400 h.p. The experimental Allison's cylinders are grouped in a W over two-geared crankshafts. Napier's Sabre is built into an H over geared shafts, is thus narrow for its power...
...Mayor flatly refused to renew the contracts. He contended: 1) that the city could not legally sign a contract that permitted collective bargaining;* 2) that, although the city would continue to confer with union leaders (or anyone else), it most decidedly would not require workers to join the union and pay union dues; 3) that municipal workers had absolutely no right to strike. Liberal though the little Mayor is, to give a union the power to deprive the people of his city of essential services was more than he could stomach...
...this surcharged atmosphere, Labor Secretary Perkins met with union leaders in Washington. The air began to clear when a formula for a truce was worked out, to which all sides quickly and thankfully agreed. The truce postponed the whole showdown: T.W.U.'s collective-bargaining contract provisions were extended until the courts decided whether the city could sign such contracts...
Entry in the log book: "His real name is Henry." Gene Tierney's parents sued to block her signing a new movie contract, lost the case. Mrs. Tierney, interviewed, added that her daughter's recent elopement with Count Oleg Cassini, Hollywood dress designer, was "silly." Nancy Kelly, 20, onetime child star, called it quits with Actor Edmond O'Brien, 25, sued him for divorce. John Barrymore got into his umpteenth public scene, was delivered to the great outdoors by a nightclub bouncer...
Requiring many complex adjustment and contract changes, these proposals would give a transport value of 26 10,000-ton ships to the Eastern area-about half the number transferred to Oil-for-Britain. As for the remaining shortage, the report said "this could be protected by rail movement...