Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nevertheless Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij voor Nederland en Koloniën (Royal Dutch Airlines) last week blamed the crash of its famed Douglas Airliner Uiver (Stork) in the Syrian Desert six weeks ago on lightning (TIME, Dec. 31). According to KLM's experts who examined the wreckage, Uiver hit the ground at full flying speed, switches on, throttles open, stabilizer set for cruising, landing gear retracted. The gasoline fire which consumed most of the plane destroyed most of the evidence. But tools and other metal parts untouched by the flames showed marks of extreme local heat and partial melting...
...ending concocted for Universal by four scenarists including John L. Balderston (Berkeley Square) is somewhat obvious, the picture is nevertheless thoroughly entertaining, full of Mid-Victorian atmosphere, good acting, and Dickensian makeup. (The cast used 2,200 lb. of grease paint and false hair.) Startling shot: Jasper and Durdles being stoned by an urchin named Deputy who squeals: Winnie-winnie...
...replacing Al Dillingham, Harvard's long range goal maker who graduated last June, Peter Jay has ridden into the number two position for an apparently permanent stay. Hampered early this winter by a tender knee, and riding through all the games with the joint well padded, Jay has nevertheless managed to make himself formidable to his opponents. He sustained another injury to the same leg, and will be out of the last Commonwealth Polo Association game before the team goes on the read to West Point for their initial intercollegiate encounter. It is possible that the injury will keep...
...Under Senator Pat Harrison's patronage he has been named the ranking new member of every committee he wanted-Agriculture & Forestry, Commerce, District of Columbia, Library. Since Senator Harrison is a friend of Chairman Sykes it was doubtful if Senator Bilbo's vindictiveness would accomplish its purpose. Nevertheless, The Man Bilbo began to make good on his campaign vow last week when he addressed a letter to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, urging that Judge Sykes's appointment as Communications Commissioner be denied confirmation. Some Bilboisms...
...believes that rated capacity is far too high, that obsolescence and technical developments in the past five years have eliminated perhaps 15% of the equipment still included in the theoretical 100%. And he says that the industry is operating at about 60% of actual capacity to produce. Fact remained, nevertheless, that the country's most basic industry is in the black today...