Word: aviatrix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Siberia in 1918 wiry little Paul Reynaud was a tough French liaison officer with the White Russian Army of Kolchak, got to know Bolsheviks first hand. His dynamism kindled Mme Reynaud, homey daughter of a president of the Paris Bar Association, to step out and become an aviatrix. As for his own exercise, the new Premier is the kind of man who makes everything strenuous, even bicycling-his favorite sport. He once participated in a long-distance road race...
That Joseph Stalin would ever go for a mouse seemed unlikely, but Mr. Williams reported that, in the early days of the Finnish War, plain, studious Soviet Aviatrix Marina Raskova began to be seen riding regularly in the Dictator's official car to the Kremlin and also to his country villa. Friends of neat Miss Raskova, who parts her shiny black hair in the middle and draws it back along her skull into a bun at the rear, confirmed to Secretary Williams before 'he left Moscow that she now seems to be accepted by everyone around the Dictator...
Odlum's Meditation: Two months ago Tycoon Odlum went out to the desert ranch which his wife (No. 2), Aviatrix Jacqueline ("Jackie") Cochran, owns at Indio, Calif., 130 miles east of Los Angeles. He had thinking to do. Since end of 1929 U.S. investment trusts have suffered dollar & prestigewise (TIME, March 25). Atlas alone had conspicuously beaten the game. Its asset value per common share had risen from $5.06 to $12.80-153%. It had distributed nearly $60,000,000 of its peak assets, plus around $20,000,000 in dividends. What was left in the kitty was largely profit...