Word: twins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Tiger's route runs from California to the Pacific Northwest, then to the Twin Cities, Des Moines, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, New York and north into Maine. Prescott also intended to carry on, for the time being, with his six DC-4s and three C-47s. "The decision gives me a lot of new markets," he said, "but I've got to test them to see if they will be profitable...
...Andrew Hoffman of New Orleans had been told that their seven-month-old twin sons Denny & Kenny were blind, and had been blind from birth. Not giving up hope, the Hoffmans chartered a plane to New York. At Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital they heard good news: Denny had "some vision"; Kenny would undergo an operation...
...constellation Cetus (the Whale), the twin stars will be known to astronomers as L 726-8 (L for Luyten, the figures to indicate position in the sky). Both stars are red and much cooler than the sun, which gives out 40,000 times as much light as one unit, 60,000 times as much as the other. The twins revolve around each other every 20 to 25 years, keeping about 275 million miles apart...
...British airlift pilots was to top their own previous record (8,246 tons in 24 hours) and fly at least 10,000 tons of food, coal and other supplies into Berlin in one day. The crews flew as they had never flown before. The four-engined C-545 and twin-engined R.A.F. Dakotas roared into Tempelhof, Tegel and Gatow airfields at the rate of one a minute. Twenty-four hours and 1,398 trips later, they paused to tot up the score. They had gone way over the top, had flown in 12,940 tons. That was equivalent...
...cones (the part used in making beer) produced two promising antibiotics, said Dr. W. D. Maclay, of the Western Regional Research Laboratory in Albany, Calif. One, called "lupulon," seemed to be as effective as streptomycin against tuberculosis in mice; its hop-twin, "humulon," worked in the test tube against...