Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks for your May 18 story about Christopher Draper, England's "Mad Major.'' True, a rather pathetic tale of stunt flying, but let's give the old boy his due - once upon a time he was the Bill Bridgeman [TIME, April...
Thirty-six years ago, as a cadet at the Royal Naval College, I saw the "mad major" test an incredible looking crate called a triplane- three wings, one below the other-top wing long, second shorter, third shortest. About 10,000 feet up over Spithead (the strip of water separating the mainland from the Isle of Wight) he made that crate do every trick . . . then put it in a dive and on the way down executed three close loops-one after the other...
...President Getulio Vargas that the ban against women be dropped, and allowed Maria Sandra to study at its special training school for diplomats (whose entrance exams she had passed with flying colors). Said she: "I am in love with the Foreign Office . . . It's no use being mad at the judges-that wouldn't be diplomatic...
...sketch for the first of two 46-ft.-high murals for U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters (opposite) is a prism through which he sees war as a curse on all mankind. Instead of germs and peace doves, Portinari shows the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, dashing headlong on a mad, zigzag course through humanity. Hyenas roam his shattered world and lines of sobbing mothers bend in prayer for their lost sons...
...Corp. (washing machines) doubled its sales during the EPT period and made $28 million in profits (before taxes). But it was $32 million short of the cash needed for expansion. Yet big, established companies have been able to borrow all the money they want, and under EPT's mad logic, have been able to reduce their tax by using the loan to increase their capital base...