Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Traditional British policy strives to keep either France or Germany from becoming top dog. It was Lloyd George who saved Germany from Georges Clemenceau. This week it is His Majesty's Government who save the Fatherland from odium and much else by sending Sir John Simon to shake the flabby-fleshed hand which has just torn up the Treaty of Versailles...
Around Douglas Aircraft Co.'s busy, super-efficient factory at Santa Monica, Calif. have lately been eddying exciting rumors. Whispers were heard of a monster armored air cruiser being built in holy secrecy to make the U. S. top-dog of the Pacific (see col. 2). Fortnight ago part of Donald Wills Douglas' secret got out. To Santa Monica Beach was shipped, in sections, what appeared to be a huge aircraft. Next day when crowds flocked to see it assembled, police and a corps of 100 secret service men drove them back to a nearby cliff, ripped films...
...onetime West Point footballer was charged by Congress with providing safety for U. S. airways not only within the Nation's borders but beyond them. Out he went to Oakland, Calif., surrounded himself with technical experts, chartered TWA's original Douglas transport-long used as an experimental "dog-ship"- prepared it for ocean flying experiments. Because of the additional weight, and because the Douglas is a skin-stressed airplane, the windows had to be replaced with duralumin sheeting. Conspicuous atop the cabin was a big loop aerial...
...admired senior, Dr. Endicott. at a difficult operation. Dr. Endicott was more worried about the tottering market than about the job in hand. He made a fatal blunder; the patient died. Paige, horrified, took the blame, left town, threw up his career, changed his name, brooded, talked to his dog. When he met the dead patient's daughter it was mutual love at a glance, but she found out who he was. Their ways parted-it seemed, finally. But thanks to a crippled old clergyman, who was a perfect dynamo of spiritual energy, their stories began to knit together...
...solid-looking citizen of Pittsburgh whose inheritance from his father, a onetime partner of Steelman Andrew Carnegie, supports his stock-trading and 6,000 acres near Waynesboro, Ga. There, with the assistance of Trainer Fred Bevan, he raises pointers, shoots and fishes. He rarely finds time to attend dog trials himself. Last week he was visiting his son at Phillips Academy at Andover...