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...Kirsten submitted his propeller to the U. S. Navy, which turned it down. Subsequently Kirsten disposed of the manufacturing rights in Germany. The professor has figures to show that small craft of a half-dozen nations, totaling 495,000 h.p., operated last year with cycloidal propellers manufactured in Germany. He believes that German torpedo boats now fighting in the English Channel are equipped with cycloidals, and he wishes they weren't because he is a rabid Hitler-hater. But he observed last week that there is still time for the U. S. to use cycloidal propulsion for airplanes...
When Poland fell last September, according to accounts from Polish refugees, soldiers of the Red Army seized Prince Janusz and a half-dozen of his family (including married daughters) and shipped them to prison in Moscow. On hearing of this, Queen Elena of Italy, a family connection, appealed to Chancellor Hitler. He ordered the German Ambassador in Moscow, Count Friedrich Werner von Schulenberg, to try to free the distinguished Poles...
...Stukas which dived shrieking to demoralize men on the ground, machine-gunning people and cattle indiscriminately. Iron censorship and brave British disdain concealed the true extent of damages and loss of life, but both rose inevitably as the official daily tallies of shot-down German raiders rose from a half-dozen to a dozen, then to a score. Germany was trying to "soften up" Britain, apparently in preparation for real mass attack, then for invasion. Britain's chin went up & out as she refused to admit "softening...
Henceforth, the onetime national champion, who has been accustomed to winning five out of every six tournaments she entered, must confine her competitive golf to the half-dozen U. S. tournaments open to women pros...
...together to wrest the U. S. Drunkard from the hands of the temperance movement. Bolstered by grants from several learned societies, the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, under the leadership of Dr. Winfred Overholser of Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, set projects stirring in a half-dozen U. S. universities. Members tackled such problems as the Drunkard's liver, stomach, love for his mother...