Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than romantic, the union of Ethel du Pont and Franklin Roosevelt is Wedding-of-the-Year. No two families figure more prominently in the nation's industrial and political history. And no handsomer couple is likely to exchange vows anywhere on earth this June than the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), slim, Harvard oarsman and the lissome sportswoman who becomes his bride. But position and pulchritude were not so responsible for the Roosevelt-Du Pont wedding's capturing public imagination as the fact that it culminated as bang-up a love story as Kathleen Norris ever turned...
...plane was a three-year-old ANT-25 (the initials for Designer A. N. Tupoleff) monoplane with one engine, 112 ft. wingspread. To fly it Dictator Stalin chose, not Sigismund Levanevsky as announced, but three other "Heroes of the Soviet Union"-Pilot Valeri Pavlovitch Chkaloff, 33, Co-Pilot Georgi Phillipovitch Baidukoff, 30, and Navigator Alexander Vassielievitch Beliakoff, 40. Last year this trio flew the same plane on a 5,858-mi. non-stop circuit of the Soviet Arctic. Because Levanevsky's failure on a transpolar flight two years ago brought unfavorable publicity, this year's venture was kept...
...Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. It got so cold the drinking water froze, and the men would have too, but for their silk undergarments, leather breeches and turtlenecked sweaters. Only Baidukoff took a nap. Chkaloff stayed at the controls steadily, nursed his ship down over Prince Patrick Island to Ft. Simpson in far northern Canada, then veered to the Pacific Coast, headed down...
Last February the Treasury Department announced a national competition for a 24-ft. mural for the Department of the Interior's new auditorium. The competition closed April 30 with 310 entries. The judges conferred briefly, then voted unanimously for one design...
...cannot gather in large groups are content to worship in one another's homes. Singapore has the world's only mosque with a public address system, the muezzin's call to prayer being heard a mile away through amplifiers in the mosque's four 90-ft. minarets...