Word: twin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Going Home. The U.S. flyers broke all records for such operations. The bright autumn sky over ancient Peiping drummed with the 20th-Century roar of twin-engined aircraft as the planes swept down on the airfield, hour after hour. They disgorged their human cargo, taxied to gas pumps manned by Hopeh coolies, hopped off and were on their way south again within 50 minutes...
Junior got his nickname by being born 90 minutes after his twin brother, Ralph. Everything since then has been a double-or-nothing proposition. When one of the Davis twins snipped the tail off one of their cocker spaniel pups and carried the butt as a souvenir, so did the other. They worked together summers, double-dated together, played high-school football together...
...Ercoupe. Easiest to fly of all light planes is Engineering & Research Corp.'s spraddle-legged, twin-tailed Ercoupe (Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace soloed after 7 hrs. 10 min. of instruction in an Ercoupe). With all of its controls operated from a steering wheel, Ercoupe's makers brag that "anyone who can drive a car can learn to fly an Ercoupe." Most notable safety feature: the plane is spinproof. Ercoupes, which were just getting into production when the war choked it off, are now being made at the rate of 25 a month, will soon...
...Wittiamsburg is a 14-year-old, twin-screw, diesel-powered ocean yacht once known as the Aras and owned by Maine Paper Manufacturer Hugh J. Chisholm. President Truman will have two double staterooms on the boat deck. One will have gold draperies, oyster-white leather chairs, blue walls; the other will be done in beige and green. There will be peach carpeting in the lounge, beige in the messroom. The presidential "head" will include a bathtub; guest staterooms will have showers. On the fantail Harry Truman and guests can relax under awnings, in lounge chairs. He will be free...
Born. To William H. Vanderbilt, 43, ex-Governor of Rhode Island, now a gentleman farmer after four years in the Navy, and Anne Gordon Colby Vanderbilt, 37: their third (his fourth) child, a son. Name: William Henry Jr. Weight: 8 lbs. 2½ oz. When their twin daughters (now 14) were forecast by X ray in 1931, Lloyd's of London promptly upped its rates on insurance against twins...