Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minnesota is a strong Farmer-Labor State, but of late the Farmer-Labor Party has been straining at its internal hyphen. Earnest, hard-boiled Governor Elmer A. Benson is a favorite in the Twin Cities and with the miners of the northern iron ranges. He is less popular with many a farmer suspicious of the Governor's city ways, his enthusiasm for organized labor even when it takes money out of farm pockets. Hero of such conservative Farmer-Laborites is bespectacled Hjalmar Petersen, onetime lieutenant governor who served four months as Governor after the death of Boss Floyd Olson...
...largest immediate benefit of the twin volumes (Dr. Carrel wrote the introduction to Assistant Parker's work) will be to make known the methods of Dr. Carrel's surgery and Aviator Lindbergh's perfusion pump to a far larger body of scientists than it would be practical to instruct in the Rockefeller Institute's Stygian laboratories. Incidentally, the books should still a number of wild rumors of occult doings at the Institute which the penny press has spread through the lay world. Such rumors are typified by the recent announcement in English newspapers that Charles Lindbergh...
...truth when eyewitnesses had had time to use their imaginations. Said an authoritative non-witness, William A. Patterson, president of United: "Neither of the two engines was in operation at the moment of impact. This is the first time in our experience of flying 75,000,000 miles with twin engine airplanes that we have had what appears to be simultaneous power failure of both engines...
Born. To John Davison Rockefeller Jr., three grandchildren; to Mr. & Mrs. John D. 3rd, their third, a daughter; to Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, their fourth and fifth, a twin son and daughter; all in Manhattan...
Northrup A-17s and 17-A attack. Attack planes were first developed by the U. S., combine speed, light bombing, immense firing power to harry bombers and ground forces. Like the Seversky pursuits, the Air Corps' newest attacks-13 Curtiss twin-engined A-18s - were grounded last week by structural or motor trouble. The Northrup A-17s and 17-As have 190 m.p.h. speed, 600-pound bomb capacity, gunfire rate of 4,000 rounds per minute...