Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public money in bonuses. . . . This sad incident is evidence that the majority of Mexico's legislators are solidly behind our leader." Next day 17 suspected Deputies were voted out of their seats by the majority bloc, threatened with criminal procedure, a move which practically wiped out the right wing minority that started the shooting. While humble Mexicans celebrated their 125th independence day. Congress prepared to swear in 19 new Deputies replacing the 17 expelled, the two slain...
...Wrestler Jim ("Wrigglin' ") Browning who defeated "Strangler" Lewis in 1933. Famed as much for their nicknames as for their physical strength, Ozark members of the U. B. F. are known to friends and relatives as: Tar Pole, Buck Foot, Dough Belly, Goofy, Little Creamy, Big Bugs, Hard Head, Red Wing, Kraut, Fuzzy, Biscuits, Ivan Tomcat. "Joe Chickie'' Browning is now a bank president, "Half Wit" Browning, a Harvard graduate...
...rising sun, fighting rain squalls most of the way. Soon three of them were forced down by minor troubles. The remaining five pressed on, managed to finish. First to swoop down over the 2,500 hardy enthusiasts who braved a Cleveland drizzle was Mister Mulligan, a white, high-wing monoplane designed, owned and flown by meticulous Benjamin Odell ("Benny"') Howard. Jumping from his plane, Pilot Howard stilled congratulations with: "I haven't won yet." He was right. Hard-driving Colonel Turner, Bendix winner in 1933, had started almost two hours later, was hot on his heels...
...headstart ticked away, Pilot Howard watched the clock, listened nervously for the roar of Colonel Turner's low-wing monoplane. Just as time was about up, he heard it, saw the golden Wedell-Williams racer streaking out of the murk for the finish. Ever the showman, Pilot Turner zoomed into a grandiloquent flourish over the stands, banked off into the haze, landed. Excitedly, the timers calibrated their watches, finally announced the closest Bendix finish in history. Pilot Howard had won the 2,046-mi. race by 23½ seconds. Third was handsome Russell Thaw, son of Evelyn Nesbit & Harry...
...headquarters at No. 71 Broadway, Manhattan, Steel Corp. announced that it was about to combine operations of its two biggest subsidiaries, Carnegie Steel and Illinois Steel. Together these two giant subsidiaries account for nearly one-third of the total producing capacity of the U. S. Under Carnegie's grimy wing in the Pittsburgh area are the famed Farrell, Duquesne, Edgar Thomson and Homestead Works. Illinois owns the Gary, Joliet and South Works around Chicago. Both turn out a vast and almost identical list of steel products. Yet under U. S. Steel's conservative if not downright antiquated selling system, both...