Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After almost 16 hours, the twin-motored monoplane slid down at Hawaii with a new record for the jump. Next day, mechanics achieved a flurry of headlines by discovering "a potential disaster threat" in faulty lubrication of the propeller bearings. That fixed Flyer Amelia climbed aboard with two of her crew to take off for the 1,940 mi. hop to Howland Island. Down the ong concrete runway of Luke Field the ship shot at 60 m.p.h. Suddenly the left tire blew out. Lurching, the plane rumpled its landing gear, careened 1,000 ft.. on its bottom...
...Rochelle, N. Y., brought to light after the discovery of Detroit's "twin" red-haired Pauline Taylors (TIME, March 1) were Brunette Elizabeth ("Betsy") Anderson, 17, and Elizabeth ("Betty") Anderson, 17. Born the same day, both weigh the same, went to school together, stand the same height, swim, ride horseback, play tennis and badminton. Rated the same I. Q., they are unrelated. Betsy plans to write, Betty to paint...
...hayloft fantasies of the Penrod age. Helped by the local constabulary, the kids round up the yeggs. Blackamoor Verman finds a new home, Penrod's dad makes peace with Banker Bitts. Billy Mauch is the boy who played the young Anthony Adverse. He has an equally talented twin, Bobby Mauch, whose mother, according to Hollywood legend, cannot tell them apart. The Mauches will play the dual leads in Warner's forthcoming The Prince & the Pauper. Best shot: Verman telling what he saw in the barn...
...concerned. Its reception will depend largely upon the first launching-the attention to detail, the attractiveness of the reward, its inherent usefulness, above all, perhaps, the preservation of some measure of informality in its organization, for it runs afoul the worst enemies of any non-compulsory undertaking the twin devils of apathy and lethargy. The Committee's report and the reaction to, it is awaited with eagerness and optimism...
...This led to the formation of the first U. S. aviation trust-United Aircraft & Transport Corp.-which at once became the greatest power in the U. S. heavens. Meanwhile the Boeing plant continued to turn out top-notch planes, of which the finest was the famed 247-D-first twin-motored, low-wing, high-speed transport. Introduced in 1933, this ship outmoded the lumbering Fords and Fokkers, became standard with six U. S. lines, Deutsche Lufthansa and China's Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang...