Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Randolph Apperson ("Randy") Hearst, 22, one of Publisher Hearst's tall, twin youngest sons; to Catherine Wood Campbell, 20; in Atlanta, Ga. Of the five Hearst brothers, only Randolph's twin, David Whitmire Hearst has not been married' at least once...
With eight passengers and a copilot, Nick Mamer was flying east in one of Northwest's brand-new Lockheed 143, twin-motored monoplanes whose 225 m. p. h. cruising speed makes them the fastest commercial planes in the world. Weather was not too good and shortly after noon Pilot Mamer dropped down at Butte, Mont, for a scheduled landing, lingered until the skies cleared. Then he drummed away over the mountains toward Billings, Mont. His last report: "Cruising at 9,000 ft. with everything okay...
...profit vacation resort in Pennsylvania's Pocono Hills. Some 25,000 members are enrolled in union classes, learning everything from trade union tactics to ballroom dancing. The Union goes in for sports, clubs, pageants, dramatics, music-and politics. For the Garment Workers Union is one of the twin pillars of the American Labor Party, which holds the balance of power in New York State politics. Labor Party chairman is Luigi Antonini, president of the world's biggest local, Garment Workers No. 89 with 42,000 members...
...axle grease as early as 1849. Forty-four miles on, another side road branches off to the Silent City of Rocks, 25 sq. mi. of massive granite fragments shaped like cathedrals, towers, skyscrapers, toadstools. Eighty-two miles from Pocatello is the largest potato-flour mill in the world. At Twin Falls, 42 miles farther, Shoshone Falls drops 212 ft. From the walls of Snake River Canyon, 32 miles on, Idaho's famed Thousand Springs gush enough water to supply all the big cities...
Despite this misfortune, Marshall Field & Co. now has no big worries. Profits last year amounted to $2,878,000, small beside the bonanza $10,000,000 of 1927, but attractive compared to an $8,000,000 loss in 1932. And Chairman McKinsey's widow and twin sons need not worry about the necessities of life. Though James McKinsey was a professor and died at only 48, he left some...