Word: twinning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...resistance (see p. 57). For five days in succession the Japs sent over bombing planes. On one of the first raids Marine Corps pilots led by Lieut. Robert McLeod, onetime Dartmouth All-America halfback, knocked down eight of nine planes. Lieut. J. H. King of Boston got a twin-engined job "tagging along on the tail of the formation like a fat and happy goose...
Married. Corporal Lawrence Tibbett Jr., 22, twin son of the operatic baritone; and Edith Ernestine Witte, 21, daughter of the late Schumann-Heink's late manager, Roland Witte; in Pasadena, where Tibbett Jr. is in the Army Signal Corps...
...making it fast. Despite higher taxes and wages, Philadelphia Transportation earned $1,133,000 in the year ended June 30 v. $713,000 last year; New York City Omnibus cleared $738,000 in the first six months against $630,000 a year ago. And the Midwest's Twin City Rapid Transit Co. is making money so fast (six months' profit: $373,000 v. $126,000) that its preferred stock last week soared 24 points to 73, more than three times this year...
...Henry, short, stocky, pink-eared Norman Tokar, 19, has long played a bit part in the script, long understudied Ezra, sounds enough like him to be his twin. He has played small stage roles in Delicate Story, Lamented Life of Riley, Days of Our Youth, is currently featured in the subway circuit Sailor Beware. He also writes and sells gangster scripts bristling with argot. Knowing the script depends on Henry, Norman does his best to be a businesslike copy of Ezra. House Jameson, who plays Father Aldrich, coaches the new Henry out from behind every eight ball. It is worth...
...basis) turned out last year, war needs would gobble it up. Beech Aircraft Corp. has already begun production on an all-plywood bomber trainer. Fairchild has been turning out all-plywood primary trainers for some time. Curtiss-Wright is using the same stuff to make twin-engined cargo airplanes...