Word: madness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wright brothers were still making their fledgling, flights, Inventor Turnbull was building Canada's first wind tunnel. Later he concentrated on aircraft propellers. To test homemade ones, he constructed a 300-ft. railway, mounted props on flatcars, learned which kinds had the greatest pull. His neighbors thought him mad. The upshot: patents on an electric controllable-pitch propeller, for which he draws royalties from such war-busy plants as Curtiss-Wright and Britain's Bristol Aeroplane...
Texans called these illegal emigres "wet feet." Some border employers complained that U.S. officialdom was too zealous in its efforts to stop the traffic. Border Texans were also howling mad because their local Mexicans were being "lured" in turn by northern and western farmers...
...WASPs have qualified as pilots of four-engine bombers). But as pilots of small ships they are in some ways better than men. A trip in a trainer may take weeks because of adverse weather. The WASPs sweat it out with womanly patience when male pilots would be driven mad...
Presumably, peppery U.S. Minister David Gray (uncle, by marriage, to Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt) stepped down a corridor in Dublin's Leinster House, entered Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's office. Presumably, gaunt, U.S.-born "Dev" scanned the note handed him, hopped good & mad from his chair, sputtering more sparks than the fire on his hearth...
...Tobacco is Cullman's business, investing in shows merely a hobby-but it has become high finance as well because he has gimlet theatrical eyes and no Achilles' tendon. Neither stagestruck, girl-crazy, art-mad nor long-shot-minded, he backs shows simply because he thinks they will pay off. The fun lies in the fact that they can pay off at astronomical rates...