Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Paula Stone, 25, second of famed oldtime Song & Dance Man Fred Stone's three actress daughters; and Duke Daly (real name: Linwood A. Dingley), 30, band leader; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...Department planked out $25,009,388 for a whopping rush order of airplane engines. To Allison Engineering Co., a newcomer in high-powered aeronautics, went the fattest slice: $15,080,261. Old-established Wright Aeronautical Corp. and Pratt & Whitney (already fat with Army contracts) came off second and a poor third (Wright: $8,975,317; Pratt & Whitney $953,810). Reason: Army men favored the Allison 1,200-h.p. engine (TIME, Jan. 30), whose twelve inline cylinders, snug as a whippet's ears, made it the last word in streamlined high-output power...
...varying magnetic field in which the fulchronograph wheel spins. Each iron fin of the fulchronograph is magnetized according to the intensity of the field at the moment it passes through, and the result is an intensity chart of the lightning bolt every 40 microseconds (millionths of a second...
...bolt passing through the arrester and dissected by the fulchronograph shows that it reached a crest of 21,000 amperes, then fell rapidly (in 100 microseconds) to 1,000 amperes, and from that point more slowly to zero. From start to finish the flash lasted one-sixtieth of a second. Engineer Wagner intends to acquire a complete gallery of different types of bolt, then redesign the arresting equipment on transmission lines in accordance with what he learns...
Born. To George O'Brien, 39, Hollywood horse-opera star; and Marguerite Churchill O'Brien, 29; a son, their second child. Weight: 9 lbs. Name: Darcy...