Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Governor James Rumsey Beverley advocated birth control to check the fast-growing population of Puerto Rico he stirred up a wasp's nest of indignation. But Puerto Ricans regard Nature's population-reducing visits with fatalistic equanimity. Every few years a hurricane kills a few hundred of them, destroys their homes and crops. They name the hurricane for the saint on whose day it occurred, then forget about it. When on the day of San Eusebio last week the sea became still under a windless sky, natives were suddenly reminded of the hours preceding the hurricane of San Felipe...
...hours after the Hutchinson "flying family" had been picked up on the coast of Greenland last week (see col. 2), a big Wasp-powered Bellanca monoplane lumbered across Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. and roared off for Italy. It carried...
...connection with the National Air Races, assumes importance as the world's foremost air speed contest. The event was the climax of last fortnight's meet at Cleveland. Eight swift planes started, among them Doolittle in the chunky, barrel-like Gee-Bee racer with an 800-h. p. Wasp in its fat nose, and the pilot's cockpit far back amid the fanlike tail surfaces. Another starter was minuscule "Jimmy" Haizlip who broke the transcontinental record last fortnight. Before the end of the race Doolittle, his eyes watery with hay fever, had lapped every opponent save one. His top speed...
...famed French beauty bathed in asses' milk. He ordered gallons of milk sent to Actress Held's apartment, waited. The milk company sued him; newshawks asked the reason for so huge a bill. Ziegfeld exhibited to them smiling Anna neckdeep in a milk-filled bath tub. That and her wasp-waist made her famous. He divorced her in 1912. She died in 1918, crippled by her corsets...
...fighting plane is "built around the needs of pilots and armament, the new passenger ship is built around an unusually spacious cabin for ten passengers and cargo. Twin supercharged Wasp engines, streamlined into the low wings, will pull the ship 155 m. p. h. cruising speed, 175 m. p. h. top speed. The new ships will cut United's coast-to-coast flying time from 27 hr. to 24. New York-Chicago will be flown...