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Died. Felix Philip Vaccaro, 77, youngest of New Orleans' famed, fruit-rich Vaccaro brothers; after long illness; in New Orleans. With his brothers Joseph and the late Lucca, bull-necked Felix built a fortune of many millions on the basis of a schooner load of Honduran bananas. By the '30s the silent Italian trio were powers in (largely Louisianian) orange groves, ships, chemicals, banks, presses, oil, ice, hotels, real estate, insurance...
Opening of the Alcan and its connections eases but does not end the prodigious labors of the Engineer troops who blazed the trail and the civilian contractors of the Public Roads Administration who ripped the permanent road through the North. Many a load of gravel will be dumped before the Engineers and the P.R.A. can dust their hands and call it a day. But the hard part is over...
...resulting from magnetic interference and variations. There is less interference from ship metal or electrical apparatus than in the magnetic compass, because the pickup coils need not be in the navigator's cabin, can be installed where they will not be affected by the ship's bomb load or armor...
...applicable to the low-income groups. The otherwise desirable elimination of the Victory tax would, under the Treasury's plan, give a tax-free ride to 9,000,000 taxpayers from these low-income groups. (Total taxpayers now: 44,000,000.) The new postwar credits would ease the load for another...
...when the weather is too low for precision bombing the American Fortresses can ride "in the soup" to their targets, unload bigger bombloads because they have achieved a quality which airmen call "interchangeability"-i.e., they can take light loads to high altitudes over long ranges, or they can cut down their fuel load and have bomb-rack room to load up with explosives. At Emden the Fortress load averaged around four tons each. Extra bomb racks had done the trick, without sacrifice of the Forts' defensive power...