Word: twins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Packard is no newcomer to the high-powered engine business. In 1917, tall, brusque, brilliant Colonel Jesse Gurney Vincent, Packard's chief of engineering and designer of its famed Twin Six, went to Washington with the original blueprints of the famed Liberty engine in his grip. There Colonel Vincent went into a huddle with a California aircraftsman named Colonel E. J. Hall. Five days later they came out with an improved design. Before the war's end Packard delivered 6,500 Liberties to the belligerents...
Armed with this law, Jack Franklin decided last week that his new transatlantic liner would go into the West Indies cruise business (early this week ports of call had not been chosen). At the same time he announced that his twin smaller liners Washington and Manhattan, now busy evacuating U. S. refugees from war-torn Europe, would begin next month a regular passenger service between the Port of New York and the Pacific Coast by way of the Panama Canal...
...match play), Georgetown's red-thatched Johnny Burke, who reached the third round of the U. S. Amateur last year, was out in front with a 36-hole total of 143. Johnny Burke is Irish, was born on St. Patrick's Day and is a twin. But last week, in the shadow of the Green Mountains, the luck of the Irish deserted him. While the gallery was still marveling at his 22 putts on 18 greens in the opening round, he was blasted out of the tournament in the second round of match play-by F. Dixon Brooke...
Afire, one of her twin 1,150-h.p. motors out of action, her altitude ebbing, the crippled raider wobbled in over the waterfront at Clacton-on-Sea, an Essex shore resort (pop. 17,000) about 50 miles from London. When they heard her circling for a flat spot to alight, excited Clactonians forgot blackout rules, turned out to watch. Clacton firemen, ambulance drivers, air-raid workers, long rehearsed, were soon ready. Above, four Nazi airmen passed indescribable minutes as the flares they dropped showed no landing place. The plane came lower and lower...
...wasn't on the mound, Harrison hit safely seven times in twelve tries for an average of 583 and the load in the race for the Charles H. Biair But. He hit six of those blows in a row. Tied for most number of hits are Cornell's twin bombers, George Polzer and Ronnie Stillman, each with ten safeties. Walter Scholl, of Cornell, and Bill Koepsell, of Pennsylvania, are tied in the Princeton A. A. Cup competition for individual base-stealing, each with...