Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your circulation and display departments should appreciate the makeup of Miscellany in the issue of May 23, when that department included news of the twin cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis-the only "twin cities" located in the same state. (St. Paul: ventriloquist arrested using his "dummies" in attempt to collect wages. Minneapolis: auto crash victim claims to be left with inferiority complex...
...years ago Boeing Airplane Co. turned out the Monomail, a sleek, fast, low-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear. Main features of the Monomail's design were worked into a big twin-engined bomber recently developed by Boeing for the Army. Last week Boeing announced near completion, for autumn delivery, of the first of a fleet of mail-&-passenger planes adapted from the bomber design for United Air Lines (like Boeing a subsidiary of United Aircraft & Transport Corp...
...fighting plane is "built around the needs of pilots and armament, the new passenger ship is built around an unusually spacious cabin for ten passengers and cargo. Twin supercharged Wasp engines, streamlined into the low wings, will pull the ship 155 m. p. h. cruising speed, 175 m. p. h. top speed. The new ships will cut United's coast-to-coast flying time from 27 hr. to 24. New York-Chicago will be flown...
...special Act making it a punishable offense to injure or capture him. His death (about 20 years ago) may be directly attributed to modern progress. The only boats he knew were single-screw steamers which have a propeller in back only, and when the Union Steamship Co. placed their twin-screw Arahura on the run (propeller on the side also, but I hope this will not involve TIME in a nautical argument as I am no sailor), Pelorus Jack met his Waterloo. Shortly after the Arahura went on the run his dead body was picked up with a big wound...
Throughout the United States, those twin devils, absinthe and obscenity, have raised problems, and they have been solved: Capone had an organization; Congress has an organization; even the Watch and Ward has an organization, but Harvard lags behind. Western Universities, with avid maliciousness, watching and waiting, have at last located the flaw in Eastern culture, and have published their discovery. Harvard has received the first attack...