Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Preparations were made for sending a Keystone twin-motored bomber from Ohio to "destroy" lower Manhattan at night...
...13th Century, the Petit Châtelet stood on the left bank of the Seine. Its grey twin towers made at once a gate to the city, a fortress, and a prison for thieves and political offenders. Old as was the Petit Châtelet, its winding subterranean crypts and dungeons were even older, and included a portion of a long forgotten secret tunnel under the Seine built when 9th Century Paris was besieged by fierce red-haired Norman pirates. The Petit Châtelet was pulled down in a popular uprising just before the Revolution, its more obvious cellars...
...Angeles, Calif., twin sisters married twin brothers at a twin wedding two months ago. Twin Wives Louise and Lucy Young last week filed twin divorce suits in Los Angeles' Superior Court against Twin Husbands W. Byrl and Alvin Earl Young. Twin charges: the twin husbands' parents had told the twin wives they were only twin boarders...
...biplanes. Most models, however, were "closed jobs," built as coupes, sedans, coaches, cabins, buses. All but four planes were single-motored, with Pratt & Whitneys, Wrights, Warners, leBlonds, for the most part.† Exceptions were the trimotored Fords, Fokkers, Boeings and Kreutzers (a new Los Angeles product) and the twin-engined Sikorsky amphibian. Notable for the interest they excited in visitors and the sales they engendered were...
...recently Phelps Dodge has remained practically a closed corporation. Few copper stocks have had the advantage of such respectable and exclusive upbringing. Cleveland Hoadley Dodge (Princeton classmate of Woodrow Wilson), was interested not only in copper; he became president of the board of trustees of Robert College, Constantinople. His twin sons have divided between them his interests in copper and oriental education: Cleveland E. is vice-president of Phelp? Dodge; Bayard is president of the American University of Beirut, Syria.† Executive Cleveland E. Dodge is neither the Professional Executive nor the onetime factory hand. He is the Dynastic Executive...