Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have gone touring in the great omnibus he made from an old Yellow Coach, fitted with all the conveniences of home and some not installed in many homes. His yacht, the Olive K., is filled with strange electric contraptions. Inventor Kettering also developed a way of synchronizing its twin screws so that it is vibrationless. Its cruises have taken him and his close friends on exploring parties in Yucatan and the South Seas and in winter the Olive K. is often off Miami where Mr. Kettering is a member of the famed "Committee of 100" for winter residents...
Sued for Divorce. By Viscountess Thelma Morgan Furness, twin sister of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt: Marmaduke, 1st Viscount Furness. London shipping man; in London. Charge: misconduct...
...specially adapted is catapulting from battleships and light cruisers, a maneuver in which the U. S. Navy has always surpassed foreign forces. A reason for U. S. superiority is its development of the single-float type of seaplane gear, as in the Corsair. Foreign seaplanes are usually of the twin-float type which, if strong enough to withstand the shock of catapulting, lacks speed and maneuverability in air. The Corsair shipped to Britain last week lacked the Navy's catapult attachments and had an outmoded machine-gun mount. Reason: Government regulations forbid the export of any model, less than...
...paymaster of the company's barge line, confessed that over a period of 25 years he had stolen $300,000 by padding payrolls. The company got its next surprise when it found itself in the fur and chicken business. Paymaster Head had invested his stealings in the model Twin Brooks & Hudson Fur Farms near Bangor, Me. and Twin Brooks Poultry Farm. For his plant he had bought $30,000 worth of automobiles, constructed an $18,000 laboratory, dams, a series of modern buildings. He said he had hoped to repay Socony-Vacuum out of his profits. The company took...
MURDER AMONG THE ANGELLS?Roger Scarlett?Crime Club ($2). Aging twin brothers die in a high-walled old Boston house. The will, the triangle, the marked money?these are well stirred into smooth murder...