Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appalled and crushed at American public opinion. ... I have made my home in Madrid for the past 16 years, and have had the privilege and the joy of spending three weeks in White Spain under General Franco-where all is Peace, Law, Order, Justice, and life practically normal...
...exclusive of AAA benefits, the Government has paid $615,937,000 to stricken farmers in the shape of Relief, feed loans, seed loans. Crop insurance would be voluntary, and so far farmers have shown no great enthusiasm for it. But Secretary Wallace has long waxed enthusiastic about the "ever-normal granary" or "Joseph" plan for which it is a starter, so John Farmer is likely to get it whether he wants...
...where it would use the two ships, but observers guessed that the two ships would start experimental high-altitude flights across the Atlantic. T.W.A. needs new planes at once, will not have superchargers installed until it sees how Pan American's work. Meanwhile the planes will fly at normal 5,000-to-14,000-ft. heights on the transcontinental run. T.W.A. plans to put six in service early in 1938, has an option on 17 more. One statistic to show size: in addition to 32 passengers, the 307 will carry a cargo weighing more than...
Mentally and emotionally, Robert Wadlow seems to be a normal 19-year-old smalltown boy. He was a star basketball player at Alton High School. He swims well. He does not go boating because the only time he entered a rowboat he foundered it, almost drowning his father and himself. Nor can he join in social sports like tennis. He is too big to go out with girls, so he entertains himself with photography. He likes to have his little sister and brother clamber over him. He helps his mother around the house with such tall chores ar washing windows...
Harold Wadlow, an Alton engineer, and his wife had no intimation that this first of their five children was going to be extraordinary. They and all their known ancestors were of normal size. Their firstborn, who arrived on Washington's Birthday, 1918, weighed only 8½ lb. at birth. He began to grow fast at once. At six months he weighed 30 Ib. Year later he weighed as much as a normal six-year-old boy. When he was six years old and in the first grade he had to put on long pants because the biggest boys...