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...aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, each with fourscore planes on her flat back or in her cavernous belly, completed the procession. To Admiral Clark had fallen the assignment of pretending to lead his force as an enemy fleet to the capture of Oahu, from which a thrust at the U. S. mainland would follow...
...course, never drew any considerable fraction of its students from north of New York. While Yale has probably regarded its contests with Harvard as the most important on its schedules, there has been no disposition there to belittle-or underestimate the historic rivalry with Princeton, and the cultural thrust of Yale has tended more and more toward the South. In fact, when the Big Three was an actuality in football, both Yale and Princeton favored a rotating schedule, a proposal which Harvard would never accept, insisting that the Harvard-Yale game should wind up the season. Undoubtedly that attitude...
...bulk of the German people whatever they want. Also its "Storm Battalions" offer shelter, food and a pittance to perhaps 200,000 German unemployed. The money comes from rich Germans who expect favors from Chancellor Hitler and from every German who has dropped a copper into the box thrust at him by a young Storm Trooper...
...next thrust himself into the picture with a plan for a semicircular belt system connecting New England and Baltimore, to distribute Midwestern products to seaboard. This again stepped on too many toes. He was ordered to sell his interest in the Wabash (now in receivership) and Lehigh Valley, which he did, to the Pennsylvania, at $23,000,000 clear profit...
...Adolf Rohrbach, head of Rohrbach Metal Airplane Construction Co., on an airplane without propeller or conventional wing. From each side of the fuselage extends an elongated paddle-wheel driven by a 120-h.p. engine. Each paddle-wheel is composed of three blades to provide lift and forward thrust. The angle of each blade shifts as the whole wheel revolves, thus giving thrust in any direction desired by the pilot. Rate of the wheel at cruising speed: 400 r.p.m...