Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although held to five points by the Cornell squad, the rangy Sophomore turned the tables completely on Big Jim Olsen, Dartmouth's six feet, five inch center, and dropped in ten twin-pointers and a free throw for the highest individual game total of the season for the Crimson. He played the full forty minutes, the only player to do so for the Cantabs...
Last fortnight Donald and his twin brother Eugene cut their high-school classes, hitchhiked from their Long Island home to a Marine Corps recruiting office in Manhattan. Eugene (190 Ib.) got in. Donald...
Beech was an unusual planemaker even before it announced this unusual plan. The biggest U.S. mass producer of heavy, twin-engined bomber trainers, its sales and profits have paralleled those of the bomber makers themselves, though at a lower level. In the year ended Sept. 30, Beech sales rose 240% to $8,063,000, profits 600% to $472,000. Both were all-time records...
When the defense boom started Beech had sold fewer than 300 airplanes. He was long on reputation, short on orders and cash. But he had three assets: 1) energy, 2) a smooth tongue, 3) a twin-engined commercial transport readily convertible into a bomber trainer. After a Beech sales talk, the Army started signing bomber trainer orders. Now Beech has an $85,000,000 backlog...
Then the fun begins. Whenever anything drastic happens to Mario, his twin brother automatically feels it. Mario gets pinked by a saber thrust in a Parisian duel and Lucien, leagues away in a Corsican forest, also bears the pain. Mario falls in love with the heroine (Ruth Warrick), and Lucien writhes on his Corsican couch...