Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, the first twelve experimental Wasp and Hornet engines were sputtering and coughing in the Pratt & Whitney shop, Shareholder Deeds had moved to Hartford to become assistant treasurer, later secretary & treasurer and still later vice president. The next two years were banner years for Pratt & Whiney and for Stockholder Deeds's $40 investment. Pratt & Whitney engineers developed the highest-powered air-cooled motor in existence, fitted with split crankshafts (for greater endurance), new type cylinder heads (for greater cooling). Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic fired a nation-wide interest in aviation-and aviation stocks. The public rushed...
...Wasp-waisted Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek agrees with President Roosevelt that the present is no time for old-fogyish, orthodox finance. Last week he accepted the resignation of orthodox. Harvard-graduated Finance Minister Dr. T. V. Soong, the only man who has ever balanced Republican China's budget...
Speed Record. Lee Gehlbach of Detroit took up his Wasp-engined Wedell- Williams Special for a try at Major James H. Doolittle's land plane speed record of 294.38 m.p.h., failed to crack it. Another Wedell-Williams behaved differently when its designer, one-eyed James R. Wedell, took it up. Over a three-kilometer course he definitely broke the land plane record at 305.33 m.p.h...
After capturing the outpost of Dolonnor from a mixed Manchukuo-Japanese garrison, smart Marshal Feng summoned all China to join his "struggle for righteousness." This crucially embarrassed the Chinese Government of wasp-waisted Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek who had made and is striving to keep a precarious peace with Japan. For weeks Chinese patriots sent fighting funds to War Lord Feng, who had fancy arm bands with fighting mottoes expensively stitched on his soldiers' sleeves, then suddenly announced, "I am going into retirement" (TIME, Aug. 14). Last week the Government of slim, shrill Generalissimo Chiang had to send a private...
...openings last week alert buyers, repeating the new in cantation "Edwardian or earlier," ruffled through their style notebooks to report : ¶ Waistlines are definitely stabilized at the level of the "natural waist" which must and will be emphasized by corsets. Stylists and corsetmen agree that there will be no wasp-waist pinching but high-bosomed, hourglass effects achieved by elastic sheaths, tight perhaps but with few corset bones or lacings. ¶ Daytime necklines are either modest V's or 'tend high and round with variations such as mannish stocks and severe, up standing Chinese collars. Necklines for evening...