Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lottie Perkins wrote a 30,000-word novel this time, The Missing Twin. Excerpt: "Mr. and Mrs. Jones left after they had told the Jameses what a wonderful time they had. As they got into their sedan Mrs. Jones said...
...Christopher Publishing House of Boston, "founded 1910," thought The Missing Twin "good and well worth while," offered to publish it if Miss Perkins put up $360. The company agreed to turn over 55% of the proceeds "of all copies sold...
...first-rate fair in the U. S. failed to feature a balloon ascension. Last week there was talk that Chicago's World's Fair might boast the greatest balloon ascension ever witnessed in the U. S. Shaggy-haired Professor Auguste Piccard visited the fair grounds with his twin Brother Jean, said he might ascend from Soldier Field to the stratosphere, if U. S. balloon manufacturers would back...
...night last week the boy, Harold Hatlestad, Minneapolis high-school student, appeared with 30 other youngsters and 30 model machines at the University's Chemistry Auditorium. It was the annual Originality Contest (sponsored by Professor Akerman) of the Twin City Boys' Air- plane Model Makers Club. There were designs ranging from a maple leaf type offered by Clarence Maihori, a Japanese, to a futuristic conception of 21st Century transport submitted by Robert Hillberg. Harold Hatlestad's rotor ship took first place...
Last week Pratt & Whitney boasted that it had produced the most powerful aeronautical engine in the U. S.-800 h. p.† It is a Twin Wasp, with 14 cylinders in two concentric radial banks of seven cylinders each. Weight: 1.36 Ib. per h. p. Pratt & Whitney began experiments in increased power four years ago, decided on the two-bank radial design largely because it offers no more head resistance than the ordinary single-bank type. Observers guessed that the Twin Wasp would be installed in the new high-speed Boeing transports for United Airlines, and in the giant Sikorsky...