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Word: vegas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learn and to stay in practice. Especially to daughters of rich men might this apply. One such, Margery Durant, daughter of Motor Tycoon William Crapo Durant, had time this summer to tour Europe for three months. She did it all dressed up in white in her black-&-white Lockheed-Vega Ariel, accompanied by a French pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: No Picnic | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...Vega Baja...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1931 | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

Lieutenant Commander MacKay, the only one of the present Harvard staff who has been given a definite assignment as yet, will assume his post as executive officer of the U.S.S. Vega, cargo transport ship plying between the East Coast and the Aleutian Islands, immediately. His present work in navigation duty here will be taken over by Berry and McRight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAME REPLACEMENTS IN NAVAL SCIENCE COURSES | 5/13/1931 | See Source »

...wings, and to struts, tail surfaces, flying wires. By means of a motor-driven pump, the overshoes were made to pulsate-to loosen the ice as quickly as it could form. The ice would be blown away. Last week at Akron, the Goodrich company announced that a Lockheed Vega and a Douglas mail plane equipped with Dr. Geer's overshoes had been flown for the past four months under worst conditions (just below 32% in moist atmosphere). The planes' flying performance was unaffected. Geer overshoes are to be shown the public for the first time at the National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Overshoes | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...called them bankrupt, last week had genial Lory K. Bethune, Chilean manager for General Motors, jailed for "interrogation." Mr. Bethune, of Atlanta, Ga., was held incommunicado, denied counsel. It required two heated notes from U. S. Ambassador William Smith Culbertson to get him out of jail. Subsequently Mariano Puga Vega, a lawyer for General Motors, challenged the chief attorney for Brusadelli & Manni to a duel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine, Mar. 30, 1931 | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

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