Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi Party's earliest and richest backers, Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach who led Der Führer proudly through the Krupp Works. Chancellor Hitler, after inspecting Westphalian labor camps, flew on to Bonn. General Göring flew back to Berlin. "Have my plane made ready," he commanded mysteriously...
...waterfront barkeep in Texas City, Tex., Jimmy Wedell got no further in school than the ninth grade. A boyhood motorcycle accident blinded his right eye. Mechanically inclined, he ran a small garage, saved enough money to buy a second-hand plane which he learned to fly in one hour. Barnstorming around the Southwest took him to Patterson where he met Harry Palmerston Williams, Louisiana lumber tycoon, husband of one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark...
Backed by Williams' millions. Wedell began building high-speed planes in 1930. Unable to read a blueprint, he built "by ear," learned by experience. Last year in one of his own ships he set the world's land-plane speed record (304.98 m.p.h.). His wife set the woman's land-plane record in the same ship. Col. Roscoe Turner's West-East transcontinental record 10 hr. 4 min. 55 sec.) and East-West record (12 hr. 33 min.) were both made in a Wedell ship...
Last December Jimmy Wedell made national news by flying a sick infant 1,400 mi. through fog and storm from Houston to Baltimore for an operation which saved her life (TIME, Jan. 8). Fortnight ago a windstorm wrecked his hangar, failed to damage the uncompleted plane with which he hoped to fly 450 m.p.h...
Like most successful wrestlers. Champion Londos has no home. He travels, usually by plane, for ten months a year, wrestles five nights a week in different cities. He banks his earnings in St. Louis, rents a house there for his library of 1,000 volumes, trophies which include a world's championship belt showing the history of wrestling in twelve plaques. Son of a Greek olive picker, Champion Londos was born near Athens in 1898. He got his nickname in 1915 from a San Francisco sportswriter friend who admired Jack London. He takes singing lessons, smokes a corncob pipe...