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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third another twin killing with Captain Bart Harvey acting as the fastmoving pivot staved off a Devens' rally when the Army players filled the bases with none out. In the second frame, the visitors opened the scoring with two runs on three Crimson errors and an infield hit by Charlie Cuneo, former Holy Cross shortstop...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: Crimson Turns Back Strong Devens Nine; Hoftyzer Victor 5-3 At Soldiers Field | 7/10/1942 | See Source »

...twins born to Adam Emory Albright in 1897. Adam painted pictures as cheerful and innocent as Ivan's are gruesome. Adam named Ivan after the great landscape painter, Claude Lorraine, twin Malvin Marr after Carl Marr. Brother Lisle Murillo went into business, but Ivan and Malvin, used as models for the senior Albright's sentimental pictures of childhood, reacted by staying with art in a grim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. ART: ALBRIGHT | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...Army has a laconic term for chronic befuddlement: snafu.* Last week U.S. citizens knew that gasoline rationing and rubber requisitioning were snafu. For months the people and their leaders had pussyfooted around the twin horrors. There were orders and counter-orders. All were different. The people, numb with bewilderment, choked with wrath, gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snafu | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...together with plastic glues could be fashioned into flying machines as big as houses, if necessary. In wooden-wing planes the cautious Army had contented itself with fleets of Ward's little primary trainers. Now the Army has asked Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. to make big, wood-veneer, twin-engine planes for bomber-crew training-as fast, as maneuverable as many twin-engine bombers on the war fronts. They will be complete, with bombs in their belly bays and guns at gun stations. Plastic-and-wood planes had come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Wooden Ships | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...pertinacious Carl Ward of Fairchild, the twin-engine trainer is only a starter. "We can build the biggest damn airplanes out of wood," said he, "that anyone ever thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Wooden Ships | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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