Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CAST Bill, a Harvard man of the right sort George Whitney '37 "Stopper" Carter, a friend of his Charles Bellows '37 Charlotte Peter Jopling '35 Dean Bounce William M. Hunt, II '36 Fish, a Harvard man Arthur M. Jones, Jr. '35 Wasp Anderson Page '37 Jake F. Sewall Gardner '37 Dean Surley Robert Grinnell '36 Mrs. Murphy, a goody, one of the best Lawrence, Nichols '35 Mrs. O'Shaughnessey, her crony Gaspar G. Bacon, Jr. '37 Mrs. Bounce, nee Wholeworthy Walter Birge '35 Mary Bounce, her daughter Francis E. Johnson '35 Faunce, a Butler Henry Lyman '37 Mrs. Elwell Myron...
...engineering achievement. So big that a pit had to be dug in the factory to accommodate its hull, the ship was also too big to be assembled in the company's hangar which is large enough to hold several Douglas transports. XP3D-1 has two 830-h.p. Twin Wasp motors, 100-ft. wingspread, carries eight men, six machine guns, two tons of bombs. Although not armored. XP3D-1 tickled Navy officials, impressed them especially by carrying a 2,000-lb. payload on one engine...
...Central Airlines one night last week. Two seats had been removed to install a five-foot-square screen at the cabin's front end. Warner Brothers had provided a cinema projector, two technicians, a specially-made 16-mm. print of Devil Dogs of the Air. The tri-Wasp Ford, ordinarily noisy, had been sound-proofed with rock wool...
Last week Japan, in effect, repeated her maneuver of the Twenty-One Demands, and again every Japanese official had instructions to deny everything in sight. They first denied that Japan is pressing fresh demands upon China's wasp-waisted little Dictator, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. What actually happened last week, Japanese insisted, was that Generalissimo Chiang of his own volition invited to a secret conference at Nanking the Japanese Minister to China, suave, hearty Akira Ariyoshi and the Japanese Military Attache, exceedingly pugnacious Lieut. General Yoshimichi Suzuki...
...dive brought Builder Northrop the biggest Army aircraft order in years - no attack planes at a cost of $1,896,400. The new Northrops all-metal, low-wing monoplanes have a topspeed of nearly 280 m.p.h., will probably be powered with the new Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp double-bank radial engines. Well pleased at his bargain was Builder Northrop as he handed Pilot Breese $8,000 for his 15 seconds' work...