Word: craning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lana Turner, disguised in a low-pulled hat, dark glasses, a fur coat and a cold-reddened nose, went to court and won an annulment from Stephen Crane, her second husband. Her charge: he failed to let her know that his divorce had not become final when he married her last July. The cinemactress expects a child next summer...
Baird and Engler contrived to do all their war work without one penny of Government funds for new equipment. When they needed new machines they rigged up their own Rube Goldberg contraptions (Baird is proudest of a crane he made out of pulleys', sash cords and weights from Texas Washer windows). They bought their materials jointly, ran production lines from one plant into the other. Recently they were thrilled to hear that they were due for an Army-Navy E to reward their joint efforts (the first dual plant award in the U.S. and the first Ordnance award...
Besides this big engine problem the whole escort program depends on other hard-pressed suppliers. Probably the worst bottleneck is valves made by Crane, Lunkenheimer and Worthington Pump. Shafting comes from such companies as Erie Forge, Camden Forge and American Locomotive. From Cleveland's Bailey Meter Co. and Connecticut's Bristol Co. come meters and regulating devices...
Husband Stephen Crane, 27, just found out his first wife's divorce from him would not be final till next week, said 22-year-old Julia Jean Crane (Cinemarmful Land Turner). The actress forthwith sued for an annulment seven months after she thought she had married him. Crane issued a formal statement expressing deep sympathy, understood that "Miss Turner should do everything legally necessary for the protection of the child soon to be born." No one mentioned the possibility of a second ceremony later...
...article written for the CRIMSON, March 15, 1937, by Crane Brinton '19, associate professor of History, greeted to the newcomer among Harvard publications. "Those whose joy is discerning trends will find the Harvard Guardian a portent. Here planned and carried out by undergraduate initiative, is a new periodical devoted wholly to work done in History, Government and Economics. . . It is hoped that the Guardian will survive, for its first number is most encouraging...