Word: squint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Something Japanese militarists would rather not think about was held up to their noses last week: the provisional budget for 1933-34. Squint as they might, the Cabinet of white-haired Premier Viscount Saito could not get away from two facts: Japan is faced with the biggest budget and the biggest deficit in her history. Expressed in yen at par the new budget is to balance at $1.100,000,000?a figure staggering in small Japan?with an expected deficit...
...lawyer. Candidate Brown, a small-town newspaper publisher, counted on his own State-wide political machine to win him the nomination. "Dave" Ingalls, campaigning by air, had the moral support of his party's national leaders in Washington where for three years he has been the able, popular, squint-eyed Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics. Candidate Ingalls became Nominee Ingalls by a 20,000 primary majority over Candidate Brown...
...chance to see at close range and in virile, bristling reality the neat little black beard which is the international tag of Italy's young Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dino Grandi. The latter, in turn, could study at close range the greying hair, chubby cheeks and pleasant squint of the man to whom Europe's statesmen have been coming in procession with their plans and problems. Italy was joining that procession merely to create goodwill and keep her place in the international sun. She, more than any other European power, sees eye to eye with...
...company the Brothers Ludington might well be proud. But they would be first to insist that all credit go to two young men who sold them the plan and then made it work: brawny, handsome Gene Vidal, West Point halfback of 1916-20, onetime Army flyer: and squint-eyed, leathery Paul ("Dog") Collins, War pilot, oldtime airmail pilot...
...last week flew a great Dewoitine monoplane built for Perfumer François Coty. Its long, tapered wings stretched out 95 ft. Its Hispano Suiza engine roared with 650 h. p. Its narrow fuselage bore the legend Trait d'Union ("Hyphen"). In the cabin were short, squint-eyed Joseph Marie Lebrix, onetime flying partner (now enemy) of Dieudonné Coste; famed Aerobat Marcel Doret, and Mechanic René Mesnin. They were bound nonstop for Tokyo, 6,032 mi. away, farther than any plane had flown in a straight line. They were confident, because only a few weeks ago they...