Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scouts. Col. Lindbergh, technical adviser to Pan American, had the job of inspecting prospective landing places, charting the upper air, studying the effects of the Magnetic Pole and Northern Lights on his plane's radio and direction-finder. In the latter chore-radio testing-he had the valuable help of his wife who has a "better sending fist" than Lindbergh himself. She holds a radio operator's license, can transmit 20 words per minute...
...Chefoo. Soochow and Weihaiwei. Last week strapping, cleft-chinned Jan Bat'a could point to 50 chain stores operating in Java, 15 in the Straits Settlements, three in Saigon. Deliberately, according to U. S. consular reports, these stores are going after "not the trade of foreigners and the upper classes, but that of low-class natives still unused to shoes." Meanwhile what of Son Tommy Bat'a? At the funeral of Father Thomas last year Uncle Jan and all the working Bat'a part ners took a solemn vow "in the presence of our dead chief...
...next door to the residence of the Prime Minister in No. 10 Downing St., lives (so every upper class Englishman has been brought up to believe) the Chancellor of the Exchequer-but this rule has ceased to hold. Gaunt, dynamic Chancellor Neville Chamberlain has every right to live in No. 11 and is rated the real head of the ruling Conservative Party, but he joins in showing every deference to the party's titular Leader, beloved and bumbling Stanley Baldwin who (conscious of his shortcomings as a statesman) was always trying to resign during his two terms as Prime...
...Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, General William Irving Westervelt of Sears, Roebuck, old Clarence Darrow, Economist Stuart Chase. Two collateral bodies, the All America Technological Society and the National Technological Congress, were joining with the Continental Convention on Technocracy. It looked as though another flight into the upper air of serious attention might be in store for the limp technocratic skyrocket which last winter burst in a dazzling festoon of headlines and sputtered out in the back pages of hinterland newspapers. Then Howard Scott the Technocrat let off a preliminary bombast: ''We want men of action...
Though the ceremony was hailed as "revolutionary," though Brahman sticklers feel themselves polluted should the shadow of an Untouchable fall across their food, marriages between the three upper classes are not unknown, orthodox Hindus being less scandalized when the bride is of the higher caste as was the case last week...