Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong hint went winging back from the U.S. last week with the Army Purchasing Commission under Brigadier General Eduardo T. Lapez. Like the naval twin under Rear Admiral Sabá H. Sueyro which preceded it by a fortnight, it had been invited to Washington last December to discuss the details of arms promised by the U.S. Like its twin, it returned emptyhanded...
...Twins. In Cambridge, Minn., Edgar Wilson paid a visit to the home of his twin brother Edward, dropped dead. Five minutes later Edward dropped dead...
...opening of a rest home in Surrey for bombed-out mothers and children, Mrs. Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr., wife of the U.S. minister to exiled governments, posed for photographers with twin girls in her arms. One of the babies obligingly gave a smart salute...
...money in chemicals, vaccines, livestock. He set up Globe with the help and cheers of the local Chamber of Commerce. Its plant was a 50-by-300-ft. tile and galvanized-iron barn built for Kennedy's string of show horses. Its intended product was a good-looking, twin-engined plastic-and-plywood "Executive Transport" designed to carry eight, sell for $35.000. This ship was built on the West Coast before Globe was formed...
Detroit v. the Axis. In Manhattan last week some 360 members of the Society of Automotive Engineers inspected the motor of a Nazi twin-engined Junkers bomber shot down over England. They took it apart, put it together again, fiddled with screw drivers and flashlights-and smiled...