Word: craning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dreams have taken a worse beating than Russ's. He is always in bad, for fighting the pace of the assembly line (though earlier, running a crane, he complained his helpers were too slow); he marries a taxi-dancer who hates his rhapsodizing about clams as much as he hates conveyer belts; unemployment and a baby eat up his savings; his nerves go to pieces; his obsequious pal Bennie turns against him (why he tolerates Bennie, the human equivalent of a conveyer belt, is a puzzle); and an accident finally puts down his revolt for good...
Conrad T. Budny '40, of Gilman, Wisconsin; William N. Chambers '39, of St. Louis; William N. Chandler '41, of Portland, Oregon; George W. Chessman '41, of Peoria, Illinois; Gardner Clark '39, of Cleveland, Ohio; Ray S. Cline '39, of Terre Haute, Indiana; John E. Crane '40, of Richmond, Indiana; Daniel R. Crusius '40, of Elmhurst, Ilinois; Hamilton Daughaday Jr. '40, of Winnetka, Illinois; Edward M. Davis Jr. '40, of Winter Park, Florida; Joseph T. Doyle '39, of Providence; Charles D. Duffy Jr. '39, of South Jacksonville, Florida; Richard D. Edwards '41, of Pittsburgh; Warick E. Elrod Jr. '39, of Atlanta...
...tactics, weapons, strategies are in the making. At the Air Corps' experimental Wright Field are such men as Major Carl F. Greene, whose wing designs largely made possible the modern monoplane, whose new pressure cabin is carrying military and commercial aviation into the substratosphere; Capt. Carl J. Crane, whose radio-controlled plane has completed 160 landings without a hand on the controls; Major Edwin R. Page, in whose laboratories engines with 3,000 h.p. in a single unit soon will be on test; Major George W. Goddard, whose color cameras capable of making pictures at 15,000 ft. altitude...
...Badge of Courage (Sat. 7:30 p.m. CBS). Columbia Workshop makes microphone drama of Stephen Crane's Civil War story...
Arthur Lehman fellowships to: Sidney S. Alexander 1G, Milton Crane, Columbia University. Robert Galambos 1G, John S. Harding, University of Minnesota. George W. Mackey, Rice Institute. Forris Jewett Moore scholarship Frederick C. Novello '38. Elkan Naumberg fellowship, Arnold Elston 1G. Robert Treat Paine fellowship, Robert E. Olson, Columbia University. Francis Parkman fellowship, Peter Viereck '37, Oxford University, England. James Mills Pierce scholarship and University fellowship, Edwin N. Nilson 1G. Rantoul scholarship, Donald W. Fiske 1G. James Rogers Rich scholarship, George C. Bright, Brown University. Henry Bromfield Rogers memorial fellowship and University fellowship, Arthur K. Van W. Ogden...