Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of its usual twin bill, the U.T. gives birth to triplets tonight. Rex Harrison's latest picture, even better than his muchly-touted "Night Train," is having a local premiere preparatory to a national publicity campaign. As in the earlier thriller, the plot concerns espionage and counter-espionage in World War II; but there's twice as much gunplay and the sets have been done on a more extravagant scale...
...shone on Miami Beach that day, and the Sunday night was chilly. Men on the hunt, women coyly at bay, people who were merely married or alone packed the twin, curving bars at the 5 O'Clock Club (where the drinks are free at 5 a.m. and 5 p.m.). Jack Dempsey brooded in a corner of his dim and crowded saloon. Fat, male Mother Kelly dished up steaks, drinks and hermaphroditic comedy at Mother Kelly's. Across Biscayne Bay, on the Miami side, painted men danced and profaned sweet songs at the Club Ha-Ha. In the casinos...
...Chile's Fomento Corporation (Chilean RFC), $12,000,000 to purchase six Lockheed twin-engine 14-passenger transport planes, and to the Central Bank $5,000,000 for mining equipment, pumps, compressors...
...night bombers." Good guessers thought the device was a new detector that would enable pursuit planes to find raiders at night. > In London, Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook had more specific good news. Guardedly he spoke of some new plane models. The Tornado fighter was "most successful." The twin-motored Manchester bomber, the four-motored Stirling bomber - designed to cruise at between 246 and 275 m.p.h. -and the twin-engined Whirlwind fighter were "in operation." On Britain's total air power he said hopefully: "We are not short of planes and are receiving . . . U. S. aircraft...
...last week, a stub-winged, twin-motored monoplane darted off the Glenn L. Martin Airport near Baltimore, cut the sky at 340-360 m.p.h., landed for checkups by Martin engineers and Army Air Corps observers. It was one of the Army's (and the R. A. F.'s) latest and best bets for air war: the Martin B-26 medium bomber. From two electrically twirled turrets and from fuselage blisters a dozen machine guns bristled-twice the number on such U. S. planes before World War II taught its lesson of more firepower...