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...thing, the show has a lot of dependable talent: the amusing, if less than Bea-Lillie, drollness of Luella Gear; the Gallic, if less than Maurice-Chevalier, charm of Jean Sablon; the dazed, middle-aged prankishness of Bobby Clark ("I'm Robert the Roue of Reading, Pa."); the borderline sanity of Abbott & Costello; the magic bartending of "Think a Drink" Hoffman, who turns water into not only wine, but dry Martinis, Pink Ladys and piping hot coffee...
...Some of the contraptions: a jack (see cut); a turnspit driven by the draft of a chimney; a machine for cutting files and rasps; a printing press with movable type; an olive oil press such as is still used in Italy; a pile driver; an automatic saw; an automatic gear, like the differential in an automobile; a flying machine, whose bird-like wings were supposed to be powered by the operator, lying on his back and pumping with his feet...
Congress last week voted, and the War Department immediately spent, $46,400,000 for new airplanes, engines and other gear. The civilian in charge of Army buying, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson, evinced no qualms when he reported to Franklin Roosevelt on the biggest peacetime order for aircraft. Some of the 571 planes ordered, the President heard, would do better than 400 m.p.h.; all are the best to be had. The contract awards (number of planes estimated unofficially...
...Unannounced amounts for guns, engines (including Allisons), radios, navigation instruments, other gear...
...wing monoplanes on every large domestic airline in the U. S. Not since the last famed Ford "tin goose" and Fokker tri-motor disappeared from service had a high-wing monoplane like Douglas' new DC-5, which carries 16 passengers and uses a retractable tricycle landing gear, been offered for transport service...