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...price: something less than $500,000, plus royalties. Named to head G. M.'s new Aeroproducts Division was Engineering Projects' president, 40-year-old Werner J. Blanchard. He has designed a constant-speed propeller with hollow hub for light cannon, now has under Army test a prop of new design with eight blades, four turning in each direction. If business warrants, G. M.'s research laboratory in Dayton will be expanded into a $5,000,000 factory...
...packed under the fuselage: a 1,100-lb. or 550-lb. bomb on a rack that can be extended as the dive is begun. Reason for extension: bombs released in a dive pick up speed faster than the ship, have been known to poke their noses into the whirling prop and blow dive bomber and crew to bits. The extension guides the bomb out of the propeller...
Lillian Russell (20th Century-Fox), Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's semi-annual rummaging in the attic of U. S. culture, nostalgically evokes the howling vulgarities of the gilded era. This time the hourglass figure of Singer Lillian Russell serves as a prop on which to drape a long (two hours) and lavish account of her vocal triumphs and marital monotonies. For reasons which the picture never clears up, Alice Faye is cast as Lillian Russell. Queues of top-hatted gentlemen, roomfuls of roses, $15,000 trinkets sent her anonymously by Diamond Jim Brady fail to dent her indomitable domesticity...
Although Circusman North was out to beat his uncles at their own game (the tent this year is blue and the prop men wear berets), he was not so inexperienced as to change the basic rules of that game...
...number of students paraded through the dining hall with an effigy of "Adolph Hurttler, Unser Fushrer" on their shoulders. Several of the men carried signs such as "Kirkland Kentzentration Kampf--Adolph Hurtt, Prop.," "Hire Only Deaf-Mutes," "The Kirkland Gestapo Dictates the Law (the Sanctimonious Sycophants!)" and "Vexation Without Representation...