Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan has long delayed naming a supreme puppet government for all her conquered territory in China for the simple reason that no respected top-flight Chinese leader is willing to head it. The most respected Chinese figure not fighting on the side of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is China's oldtime warlord General Wu Pei-fu, once master of middle China before the Generalissimo deposed him in 1926. He is respected for his eccentricity (he is followed wherever he goes by a faithful spittoon-bearer) and because he is as wily as Ulysses. Some time ago he was reported...
...Germany. Germany knows the advantages of streamlining engines into wings, and has the engines to do it. German designers already have their eyes set and their designing tools working for a speed of 500 miles an hour. Already its sleek Heinkel 112-U has hit 440 m.p.h. in level flight, and its Messerschmitt log is only a little slower...
...Chicago last week Drs. Francis Wood Godwin and Alfred Orpheus Walker showed pictures of a .22 calibre bullet in flight taken at speeds of about one-millionth of a second, fastest exposure ever accomplished. These photographs revealed the bullet "stopped" in its course, a clear-cut image with highlights gleaming on its surface; stopped again so close to a pane that its reflection could be dimly seen in the glass; passing through and emerging in a cloud of glass dust...
...made motion pictures of pigeons, humming birds and even houseflies in flight; of lamp bulbs breaking under hammer blows; of craters formed on a liquid surface by a falling drop of milk; of soap bubbles breaking; of falling cats twisting in mid-air to land on their feet...
Divorced. Charles A. Levine, 41, fabulous Brooklyn junk dealer who accompanied Clarence Chamberlin on his 1937 European flight as the first transatlantic airplane passenger; by his second wife, Delia Doris Levine; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty. For more than a year Levine has been in Northeastern Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., serving a two-year sentence for smuggling tungsten into...