Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dutch had never owned. She was to be of 36,000 tons, 750 feet overall-only half the size of such mammoths as the Normandie and Queen Mary, but one of the dozen biggest passenger ships in the world, bigger than any U. S. ship save the late (German-built) Leviathan. Holland-America's two new managing directors, Frans C. Bouman, longtime general manager of Rotterdam Lloyd for the Far East, and Willem H. de Monchy of the Van Ommern shipping firm, vetoed the idea of a Government subsidy. They did get a 20-year loan...
Professor Gerard Pieter Kuiper found that Wolf 424 has an unusual "very late M-type" spectrum which indicates that the star is 50,000 times less luminous than the sun. Its apparent magnitude is 11.8, which is about six magnitudes be low the limit of naked-eye visibility. Comparison of the apparent with the intrinsic brightness yielded the distance...
...Named for the late German Astronomer Max Wolf of Heidelberg...
...comfortable plurality Russell Billiu Long, 19, older son of the late Louisiana Kingfish, won the presidency of Louisiana State University's Student Council. Able Russell Long, a Junior majoring in government, cut his political teeth last year when he got his sister, Rose Lolita, elected president of the Women's Student Association. This spring, aided by Shirley Leche, svelte niece of Louisiana's governor, he toured the campus on a sound truck, held forth over loud speakers, plastered university grounds & buildings with screaming handbills. Black-haired, curly-headed, handsome Politician Long acts so much like his father...
...technicians, not businessmen, to make airplanes; he has the uncanny ability of finding the right experts from among his old cronies. Donald Douglas has surrounded himself with a group of congenial, practical-minded Jules Vernes. Perhaps the most important of these is Arthur E. Raymond. Son of the late Walter Raymond of Raymond-Whitcomb, he looks more like a professor than a boss. His first job with Douglas was filing fittings; now he is chief engineer. Harry Wetzel, general manager and the closest thing to a hard-hitting executive in the organization, studied industrial engineering at Penn State, subsequently served...