Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the Imperial Family, exalted and unassailable, Alexander in his youth went first to a particularly expensive U. S. daughter of joy in Hongkong. Later he "went native" in Japan, an incident which he relates with a flourish en passan, not forgetting to add that "elder [Japanese] persons" often stopped him in the street to inquire whether his "wife" was giving satisfaction. He says that His Majesty the Empress of Japan and His Majesty the Emperor, "Son of Heaven bestowed their mirthful benediction at Court Banquet upon his sowing of wild oats. They laughed, shrieked...
Through Japan en route to China passed, last week, the League of Nations' Commission on Manchuria. With good luck they might rush upon the scene just in time to be hailed as Heaven-sent arbitrators by both fighting factions. In Japan they commented exclusively on "the beauty of Japanese scenery...
...black smudge. Guessing what it was, the Indian turned back because he "didn't want to see any dead people." Others whom he directed to the canyon found the smudge to be the bodies of the pilot and seven passengers in the burned wreckage of a Century-Pacific plane. En route from San Francisco to Los Angeles the ship had flown into a blizzard...
...groups of Communists and unemployed gathered in the suburbs of Neuilly, Vitry, St. Cloud, and advanced toward the Chamber of Deputies. Gendarmes were out, automobiles full of detectives cruised alongside. Once the 8,000 marchers crossed the Seine the entire line was hustled into the Gare des Invalides, arrested en masse. Most of them were released in a few hours. No one was hurt. Albert Grzesinski, chief of the Berlin police whose schupos have caused so many deaths in Berlin riots, stood on the curb, marveled...
Much experimentation but little actual practice has been made with mufflers for airplanes. One reason: engine mufflers are ordinarily of only partial value because as much as half the noise of an airplane is made by the whirling propeller (TIME, Oct. 27, 1930). But geared en- gines turn big, high-pitched propellers at low speeds. In such engines propeller noise is comparatively slight. Last week Eastern Air Transport, whose Condor biplanes are powered by geared Conqueror engines, adopted a muffler which was said to reduce engine noise by 70% without loss of power. The muffler, developed by the company...