Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patterson's dismay in 1937 Pan American ordered Boeing 307s just under the weight limit. Later American and T.W.A. began flirting with heavy planes...
Born. To Dominic Felix ("Don") Ameche, 31, grinning cinemactor; and Honoré Pandergast Ameche, 31; a son, their third; in Hollywood. Weight: 5 Ibs. 15 oz. Name: Thomas Anthony...
Born. To George O'Brien, 39, Hollywood horse-opera star; and Marguerite Churchill O'Brien, 29; a son, their second child. Weight: 9 lbs. Name: Darcy...
Lauch Currie probably comes nearer to having a passion for anonymity than any other New Deal adviser. First evidence of Currie's growing technical weight in Washington came in the spring of 1938, when he wrote an influential memo on the Causes of the Recession. Its prime theses, now commonplace: 1) U. S. Social Security taxes took so much out of the public pocketbook that the Government's net contribution was reduced during the crucial March-September period in 1937 to a monthly average of $60,000,000 from $335,000,000 during 1936. 2) "Compensatory" Federal spending...
...Only one weight-lifter in the world has ever scored a larger total: Josef Manger of Germany, 1936 Olympic champion and twice (1937-38) world's champion...