Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aloof pedestal of a Throne which every Belgian deeply respects. It was significant that next day newsorgans of all Belgian parties except the Communist echoed warm approval, and the harassed Europe of 1936 received a striking example of how leadership can be exercised by a genuinely popular King...
Nevertheless, Edward VIII has always scrupulously performed his outward "public duties." He has been the "Empire Salesman." He has led a charmed youth with the result that today at 42 he still seems from a distance of 15 feet only about 22. And His Majesty is undoubtedly most popular with millions of the British Lower Classes. Today there is probably not a person of this class who does not love King Edward, in the sense that "the Englishman is taught to love his King as a friend." Meanwhile, in Mayfair there is a small, swift, hard-drinking clique...
...Paris papers have dubbed William Christian Bullitt, drove in his limousine into the courtyard of the Elysee Palace last week, took the salute of a battalion of the French Garde Républicaine, and presented to cordial President Albert Lebrun his credentials as U. S. Ambassador. For twelve years popular and Bohemian "Bill" Bullitt has maintained a studio in Paris, and he put his heart into telling M. Lebrun: "I come to France not as a stranger but as one who for many years has known the magnificent achieve ments of French civilization...
...most people Fairchild still means a high-wing, cabin monoplane popular with sporting brokers and airport joyriders in the twilight of the 1920's. Depression hit the company as hard as it hit the rest of the industry, and in the last five years planes, on the average, have accounted for only one-fourth of Fairchild sales. The balance was derived from the aerial camera and survey divisions, in both of which fields Fairchild is an undisputed leader...
...amateur snapshotters are Fairchild cameras. An inexpensive model costs more than $1,000, and the most popular number sells for about $4,000. This model has one lens, is operated automatically by electricity. After the camera is set for the amount of overlap desired on successive pictures, the shutter clicks at regular intervals in the plane's flight. Coincidentally with each click a little subsidiary camera records on the negative the time, temperature, altitude, bubble level reading and identification number. Then a vacuum, holding the film firmly flat during exposure, is released, and the roll is wound...