Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greasemonkey and bamboo polisher at Curtiss Flying School, Corporal Ocker rose to be a pilot, then an inventor. Flying upside down in the clouds made him dizzy so he helped devise an instrument to prevent vertigo. When flying by instruments alone was scoffed at, he built a little black box full of indicators which not only made blind flying simple but two years ago led the Army to require it of every flyer in the service. Congress appropriated $1,000 to buy up his patent. But last week at Ft. Sam Houston, Major Ocker, oldest pilot in the Army...
...both M. Serge Alexandre, the supposedly philanthropic founder of Bayonne's Crédit Municipal, and also the notorious swindler M. Alexandre Stavisky, supposedly known to every detective in France. To cap all this the Founder, when last seen in public, was seated in his own leased box at a Paris theatre with none other than the Chief of Paris Police, M. Jean Chiappe...
What interested the U. S. Lines in the Williams infra-red camera was the speed with which the negative could be viewed after exposure. The long, tripod-mounted duralumin box contains its own "dark room." As soon as a portion of film is exposed it is fed swiftly into a developing bath, then into a fixing bath after which it is illuminated for examination. Elapsed time: 30 seconds. Thus a skipper can safely photograph his way through otherwise unnavigable fog provided nothing crosses his path at a distance less than his ship travels in half a minute...
...contract belonged' to the Philadelphia subscribers. Therefore the New York pageant really began in Philadelphia when, a week ahead of time, the Company chartered its special tram and went where Stotesburys and Biddies take the place of Astors and Vanderbilts There were the same flashlights as the box-holders stepped from their limousines. Opera glasses kept up a steady scrutiny between acts. But Philadelphians also had something to look at during the performance for the prima donna of the evening was pretty little Lily Pons, costumed in a bit of a bodice and a low-hung skirt...
Miriam Hopkins made her stage debut in the chorus of the first Music Box Revue (1921). In 1932 she divorced her second husband, Playwright Austin Parker. She has an adopted son. Michael. Her favorite drink is a Tom Collins. Hereafter, she plans to spend her summers picture- making in Hollywood, her winters play-acting in Manhattan...