Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Newark Airport one noon last week climbed The Southerner, American Airlines' crack transcontinental transport. Southward it flew through perfect flying weather, halting briefly for passengers at Philadelphia, Washington, Nashville. Aboard the 11-ton, twin-motored Douglas was W. R. Dyess, WPAdministrator for Arkansas, on the way home. Partners W. S. Hardwick and David A. Chernus, engineers, and wealthy young Frank C. Hart, head of Hartol Products Corp., were making business trips. Young Charles Altschul, nephew of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman, amused himself by experimenting with his new candid camera. Mrs. Samuel Horovitz of Boston...
Having searched in vain for a banker who would admit telling President Roosevelt that the U. S. could support a public debt of 855,000,000,000 to 870,000,000,000, the Press went at last to Princeton's small, bald "Money Doctor" Edwin Walter Kemmerer, whose twin enthusiasms are the gold standard and shimmy dancing. Such a debt, declared owlish Economist Kemmerer, ''would be very oppressive but doubtless could be carried...
...cruise and just before unloading passengers at Detroit I stalked Mr. Macauley's Parlor A for his luggage-allowing many "sure things" to pass by in order to capture the big game. I got my man and many cumbersome pieces of luggage which I maneuvered to his waiting Twin-Six. Then I carelessly marred the finish with a small scratch from his golf bag. Said Packard's Macauley, "Boy put those bags down and get out of here!"-voice slightly raised, temper definitely lost. JOHN A. WOOD...
...year-old carpenter appeared at a Massachusetts hospital, complaining of inability to eat. On Feb. 21, 1934 another 70-year-old carpenter showed up at the hospital, also complaining of inability to eat. The ailing carpenters were identical twin brothers. Transferred to Wrentham's (Mass) Pondville Hospital, they displayed the same distressing symptoms, died respectively on June 17 and April 29. Autopsies revealed stomach tumors almost identical in character and location...
...shortly before the Canadian elections, Canada's Conservative Government had been exploring the possibility of tariff trading with Secretary of State Hull. Results were not very promising. The U. S. and Canada are not like Jack Sprat & wife. Commercially they are much more like Jack Sprat and his twin brother Bill: in general, they produce similar products. Neither Canada nor the U. S. can expect the other to take its surplus wheat or copper. When the Canadians asked whether the U. S. would take Canadian fish, potatoes, butter, cattle, the answer was: "Unfortunately, we have enough. But we might...