Word: janes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen were waiting when the happy couple entered the living room. Said Vice President Alben Barkley: "The President of the Senate yields to the Senator, shall we say, from Missouri." Said Mrs. Jane Hadley, smiling: "I think it is no surprise...
...engagement announced, neighbors began to peer in the windows and crowd into the apartment. The Veep exuberantly kissed a matron or two, shook hands all around. Mrs. Hadley's younger daughter Jane came in shyly, and the Veep looped an arm around her waist happily. But he refused to pose with his arm around his lady. "No histrionics," said Barkley. "This is going to be strictly dignified...
Since Moscow's May Day air show in 1947, the world has known that Russia has some very fast and possibly very good jet-propelled airplanes. Now, Jane's All the World's Aircraft, just off the presses, has told what it knows and surmises about Russian jets. With five drawings ("impressions") and one photograph,, Jane's gives some interesting descriptions, some of them fragmentary, of Red single-jet fighters, twin-jet attack bombers and fighters, four-jet bombers...
...Says Jane's, which is authoritative though unofficial: "The Soviet government has taken over and put to good use German experimental establishments, factories, plant, equipment, designs and experimental prototypes . . . Virtually the whole of the Junkers plant has been reestablished in Russia. An experimental development section of the company is located . . . 100 miles to the north of Moscow, and its main production unit is at Kuibyshev [on the middle Volga] . . . Here, it is reported . . . large-scale production of an Ilyushin bomber is being undertaken...
...secretary are Jeannette Beatty, Jean Berko, Ethel Bronstein, Julie Paxton, and Gracia Taketa; for treasurer, Nina Boheln, Elizabeth Gray, Marianne Rudolf, and Constance Smith; and for council representative, Vicki Blass, Carol Cummings, Dele Gilmore, Anne Friedrich, Judith Herrick, Nancy Jenny, Pat Kook, Marie-Beth Walsh, Jane Whitehill, and Lois Williams