Word: wals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief. All three flights were made in tandem-motored Dornier Wai flying boats. In 1930 it was a five-year-old craft which Amundsen had used in the Arctic and which now rests in a Munich museum. This year and last it was a newer ship, named Groenland-Wal( Greenland Whale). On each flight Capt. von Gronau took a crew of three from his school. Students Franz Hack and Fritz Albrecht as mechanic and radioman made all three flights; this year Teacher Ghert von Roth replaced Student Eduard Zimmer as copilot. All flights were characterized by methodical planning, absence...
Hannington. In his little Bloomsbury office last week sat one Wal Hannington, organizer of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, who claimed credit for fomenting these, the most serious British riots since 1921. Communist Wal Hannington, frank proponent of violence, is a hard-muscled, soft-spoken young man who dresses extremely neatly, wears tortoise shell glasses and serves tea to teatime visitors. Without hesitation he explained how some of last week's British riots were organized by his scouts (not Boy Scouts) scrawling directions on the sidewalks, how the N. U. W. M. fooled the police by starting false...
London police took Wal Hannington at his word, arrested him for "inciting demonstrations." Quietly a judge clapped him for six months into Wormwood Scrubbs Jail. Nervous, the London Press achieved a remarkable conspiracy of silence, omitted all mention of Communist Hannington...
Intercontinental. The Gronland-Wal with Captain Wolfgang von Gronau and three companions reached Chicago, its goal from Germany via the Arctic...
Results of a survey by the United Press to determine the world's richest man were published. First on the list was this name: His Exalted Highness Asaf Jah Muzaf-far-ul-Mulk-Wal-Mamalik Nizam-ul-Mulk Nizam-ud-Daula, Nawab Mir Sir Usman Ali Khan Bahadur Fateh Jung, 44, the Nizam of Hyderabad in India (TIME, Nov. 24). His wealth in gold bricks and coins is estimated at $1,000,000,000. His wealth in jewels is uncounted. Second on the list comes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. He is followed by Henry and Edsel Bryant Ford; next...