Word: fabrication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Augustus Lindbergh, with his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh and their 3-year-old son Jon, sailed furtively out of New York Harbor toward Europe aboard the S. S. American Importer. On that slender foundation of fact the U. S. Press last week reared as enormous a fabric of conjecture, rumor, implication and denunciation as has been built in nearly two thousand years on the 67-word story of the Flight into Egypt.* News of the Lindbergh flight broke in the final Monday edition of the New York Times, on the streets at 4 a. m. The New York American...
...Communists, who mortally hate the A. F. of L.'s leadership as a parcel of boss grafters and labor racketeers, have long waited for the rent which would destroy the Federation's whole factional fabric. Last week no major rent appeared but there was a significant...
Another highway material currently attracting attention is cotton. In Mississippi last month huge bolts of open-mesh cotton fabric were unrolled, like a mile-long rug, on the new road between Greenville and Scott, under the eyes of 400 engineers, farmers and Federal bureaucrats, including Manager Oscar Johnston of AAA's Cotton Pool. The cotton, fixed by tar. is laid between the clay and gravel base and the asphalt surfacing. It acts as a binder, prevents stretching and cracking. Extra cost of the binder is $750 per mile, which, experiments in other States show, should be returned later...
Playwright Anderson, whose simple maxim is that "somebody must write verse plays," has clothed his piece intentionally as well as unintentionally in an uneven variety of poetic fabric. Much of the common street speech of his criminals and vagrants is good stout tow-sacking. Much of the overlong excursion into the philosophy of justice, to judge by audience reaction, is tiresome shoddy. But pure chamfered silk, most observers agreed, were the tender, spontaneous love passages between Mio and Miriamne (Margo), Garth's mercurial younger sister, a curious and strangely apposite East Side Juliet...
...known faults of Explorer I were eliminated in Explorer II. The bag was 23% larger, of stronger fabric, better sewn, better reinforced. Folding, cause of last year's disaster, was carefully avoided. Instead of explosive hydrogen, safe helium gas was chosen. Equally improved was everything else. By June 5, these preparations had cost the U. S. Army Air Corps and the National Geographic Society, joint sponsors of the flight, some $175,000. Then for a month Captains Orvil A. Anderson and Albert W. Stevens twiddled impatiently, waiting for good weather on high. Last week it came. Joyfully, the camp...