Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though only a half-step, was taken in 1935 when, with Roosevelt's support, several theater trade unions were able to get Congress to grant a charter to the American National Theater and Academy. This meant that ANTA had the same charter-status as the Red Cross and the Smithsonian, and like them, no federal funds. Once a year, ANTA has put on a benefit show in New York, the proceeds of which have gone to the New York Experimental Theater...
...Kitty Hawk, famed first "aeroplane" of the Wright Brothers, might end up in the Smithsonian Institution after all. Twenty years ago, in a huff at the Smithsonian, Inventor Orville Wright gave the Kitty Hawk to London's Science Museum. Last week Wright's executors dug up a 1943 letter telling the British that he wanted it back. Any time, said the British...
...bishop (there were two other brothers and a sister), they liked to make things for themselves. They quit high school and opened a bicycle shop. In 1896, they read about the fatal crash of Otto Lilienthal, a German scientist who had been experimenting with gliders. They sent to the Smithsonian 'Institution for all the information there was on flying (there wasn't much), and asked the Weather Bureau to recommend a place where the wind blew steady and strong over unobstructed ground. The bureau suggested Kitty Hawk...
Tepexpan Man, probably the oldest known American, had acquired a face last week. In the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, Vienna-born Sculptor Leo Steppat made the face out of statistics and Plasticine...
Died. John Alden Loring, 76, explorer and naturalist who as a representative of the Smithsonian Institution tramped around East Africa with Teddy Roosevelt, wrote a book about it (Through Africa With Roosevelt); of a heart attack; in Owego...