Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems that even TIME is becoming infected with the accursed virus of jingoism, and its twin brother, militarism...
...major engineering achievement. So big that a pit had to be dug in the factory to accommodate its hull, the ship was also too big to be assembled in the company's hangar which is large enough to hold several Douglas transports. XP3D-1 has two 830-h.p. Twin Wasp motors, 100-ft. wingspread, carries eight men, six machine guns, two tons of bombs. Although not armored. XP3D-1 tickled Navy officials, impressed them especially by carrying a 2,000-lb. payload on one engine...
...Charles Francis Potter, Manhattan humanist, helped laugh the bill to death by pointing out that its provision against a person exposing his body in the presence of two or more persons of the opposite sex, similarly exposed, would make it illegal for a woman to give birth to twin boys...
...Twin loves of California's old (71), fun-having Senator William Gibbs McAdoo are dancing, flying. In Washington the National Aeronautic Association, of which he is president, held a dance to award its annual "certificates of reward & performance." Senator McAdoo handed scrolls to twelve doughty aviators and Mrs. Jeannette Piccard, first licensed woman balloon pilot, who ascended 57,559 ft. into the stratosphere with her husband, Dr. Jean Piccard...
Franklin Roosevelt had looked at his twin objectives, Recovery and Reform, and changed his mind about which of them was underprivileged. For many months he had lavished his care on Reform believing that Recovery, with all the advantages he had planned for it, must inevitably grow. But seeing it still lagging after nearly two years' time he realized that the advantages given Recovery by its nurse, the Government, were not enough. He must after all rely on its parent, Business, to look after it. Early this winter Donald Richberg and the President's chief advisors were given...