Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some excuse might be given the Twin City papers for taking no notice of this gathering as they have many things on their minds. Mr. Jones of the Minneapolis Journal is up against stiff competition from the revitalized Minneapolis Star which seems to be running away with the northwest's newspaper show. . . . Mr. Murphy of the Minneapolis Tribune is interested in many things and . . . appears to be too busy to notice a changing social order. ... St. Paul papers exert little influence in Minnesota and are not a factor...
Married. Violet Hilton, 28, one-half of the Hilton Siamese twins; and Trombonist James Moore, 25; on the 50-yd. line of Texas Centennial's Cotton Bowl; in Dallas. Because she is joined to Twin Daisy at the hips, Twin Violet has been refused marriage licenses in Manhattan, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark...
...head of the world's greatest airplane factory, Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif., will journey to the White House to receive from President Roosevelt the 21st Collier Trophy, now the top U. S. air honor, awarded to him for his famed DC-2-"the outstanding twin-engined transport...
...Omaha, Burlington, Union Pacific and Chicago & North Western Railroads explained to an Interstate Commerce Commissioner why they wished to buy Union Transfer Co., whose trucks run to North Platte, Neb. and the Twin Cities, for $150,000, develop it with some $450,000 more. In opposition, Keeshin, which also covers the territory, asserted the plan was not in the best public interest and that it was an attempt to smother competition...
Again & again the past three weeks a twin-motored Boeing 247-D transport took off from Oakland airport, circled lazily in the California sun, came in swiftly to a perfect landing. Each time the pilot, who could see nothing outside because canvas covered the windows, ignored wheel and rudder bar completely, merely twiddled a few knobs on the dashboard. Last week, with this technique producing 24 perfect landings out of every 25 at empts, United Airlines announced it had finally devised a practicable method of landing "blind...