Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ships, cream of 96 tested for the expedition, are Savoia-Marchetti S-55 hydroplanos* similar to those of the South Atlantic flight, great twin-hulled affairs with the pilots' compartment housed in a bridge between the hulls. Mounted above the bridge are two Isotta-Fraschini engines in tandem, each driving with 800 h.p. a three-bladed propeller. Cruising speed: 137 m.p.h. Cruising range...
Famed in Italy's politics of the past five years are two blackbearded men sometimes called "the twins." The other with the beard is Dino Grandi, onetime Minister of Foreign Affairs. There is a story that when II Duce ousted Signor Grandi from the cabinet last year he simultaneously sent Air Minister Balbo a letter informing him that his "resignation was accepted." Minister Balbo is supposed to have marched straight in upon II Duce, handed back the letter as "sent by mistake." That tale is told by antiFascists to illustrate their belief that Premier Mussolini fears his Air Minister...
...busy building planes to fly airline passengers faster than they had ever been flown before. Last week the first of the new crop, the Boeing "247," fastest multi-motored passenger ship in the world, was in regular transcontinental service on United Air Lines. Big, brutish low-wing monoplanes with twin Wasp engines, the new Boeings whipped back & forth between San Francisco and New York in 21½ hr. westbound, 20 hr. eastbound-about 10 hr. faster than former schedules. On the New York- Chicago run the new ships heated the already hot competition between United and Cord's American...
...vacated: 1) the World Economic Conference which opened in London June 12 (see p. 16); 2) War Debt payments falling due June 15. Because his voice carries farther on the floor than off, many a Senator itched to prolong the session and harangue Washington and the world on these twin subjects, imparting advice to the U. S. delegation in London, flaying foreign debtors about to default. The President was tired and wanted to get away this week on his own vacation which included a sail up the New England coast on the schooner Amberjack II to his mother...
Seven Philadelphia harpists played one night, dressed angelwise in flowing georgette robes with snoods around their heads. The Twin City Opera Company gave Rigoletto. University students gave Madame Butterfly. John Erskine, Harold Bauer, Rudolph Ganz, Ernest Hutcheson and Henri Deering played the piano. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and Soprano Florence Macbeth (from Mankato, Minn.) sang. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored chamber music by the Gordon String Quartet. Twenty-five amateur choruses performed and an orchestra came from San Antonio, Tex., the players all in their early teens. Delegates who took a few hours off to buy presents to take home heard...