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...ingenious aerial-delivery gadget was announced by the Air Technical Service Command last week. It is a rotary wing, shaped much like an ordinary maple seed, that twirls to earth without benefit of "umbrella" or rigging. The bulbous plastic container, hitched to the wooden blade, can hold 65 lbs. The rate of fall is slightly faster than a parachute's, but the "Sky Hook" is not subject to the wind drift that makes parachuting of supplies inaccurate from high (safe) altitudes...
...Money. Socialist Premier Douglas had given Ottawa a good reason to remember that precedent. He threatened to welch on a $17,500,000 debt. On the joint guarantees of the Dominion and Saskatchewan Governments, Canadian banks had advanced money so that Saskatchewan's farmers could buy seed after the 1937 drought. It was Saskatchewan's obligation to collect the money. Socialist Douglas proposed to collect only 50% of the principal from the farmers, give the Dominion a provincial I.O.U. for the balance. And to the Federal Treasury, which already holds some $75,000,000 of Saskatchewan notes...
...Dragon Seed (Walter Huston, Katharine Hepburn; TIME, July...
Terse. In Kansas, a circular letter advertising flour observed that the Lord's Prayer was written in 71 words, the first chapter of Genesis in 800, the Gettysburg Address in 267, but "the OPA uses 2,500 words to announce a reduction in the price of cabbage seed." Vocational Guidance. In Manhattan, Selective Service Director McDermott insisted the psychoneurotic discharge from the Army did not necessarily mean mental deficiency, declared: "I know of scores of cases of men earning $5,000 to $40,000 a year who were rejected ... on a diagnosis of psychoneurosis...
...Dragon Seed (Walter Huston, Katharine Hepburn; TIME, July...