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...Deal would ask Congress for the return of the substance of AAA, modified to include 1) Mr. Wallace's "ever normal granary" scheme of storing surpluses for lean years, 2) the better features of the soil conservation program, 3) some form of AAA's prime prop-crop control. However, supporting processing taxes would be enacted as a general tax measure, not incorporated in the program as before. With that legal weakness removed, the New Deal might risk sailing its rebuilt ship before the Supreme Court once again...
...design of airplane propellers. Until 1933 there had been only two major improvements in the paper airscrew invented by Leonardo da Vinci some 450 years before to pull toy helicopters to the ceiling of his study. One was the Wright Brothers' development of a two-bladed '"prop" of laminated wood, the other the shift in the 19205 to aluminum alloy blades whose pitch could be adjusted on the ground to suit various operating conditions. In 1933 the Hamilton Standard Propellers division of United Aircraft Corp. won the Collier Trophy by producing the first controllable pitch propeller...
Spurred by Curtiss-Wright's success, Hamilton Standard last week revealed that it too has a full-feathering prop. Worked by hydraulic pressure, the Hamilton blade has been ordered in small quantities by United and American Airlines for twin-motored use, by Pan American for its vast four-motored Boeing Clippers now abuilding in Seattle...
...Dancer Toto Leverne, who appeared five times a day with no covering other than a stuffed swan (TIME, July 13). When it was decided to carry the fair into its second season, Manager Lincoln Griffith Dickey thought that perhaps hundreds of almost naked girls might be a better prop than one entirely bare one. The logical man to call in was Billy Rose. His contract was reported to be $100,000 for 101 days...
...liberal wing of the Court, would retire at the same time, but Mr. Brandeis was adamant. He would not retire while the Court was under fire. So Mr. Van Devanter retired single-handed,* giving the President opportunity to appoint a liberal in his place. Thus he pulled a second prop from beneath the President's position, for liberals in Congress felt there was still less need for enlarging the Court to insure a liberal majority. Result: the one promising chance of the President's getting his plan approved dwindled until the odds were slightly against it and there...