Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Outlook Gloomy." Thus a Viceroy, at the absolute discretion and whim of His Majesty's Government, can become overnight a totalitarian Dictator, gagging and blackjacking one-fifth of the human race at his pleasure. But what wing-collared, high-principled Director of the Bank of Scotland ever gagged or blackjacked anybody? To this every Communist and most Socialists would reply with Professor Laski that bank directors are precisely the people who by invisible but effective means have not only been gagging and binding but bleeding India's masses to the verge of destitution, Indian bankers in this respect...
...Professor Clyde R. Miller of Teachers' College, Columbia, who gives teachers as much advice per year as any man in the U. S., last week advised them what to read to see the news in clear focus. For the "intelligent teacher" he prescribed the New York American (Right Wing), New York Times or Herald Tribune (Centre), Daily Worker (Left Wing), World-Telegram, Post or Sun (school pages). To this he added magazines: New Masses (Extreme Left), Nation or New Republic (Left Centre), American Observer or TIME (facts), America, Commonweal, Christian Century (religion), Social Frontier (progressive education). Finally...
Even more radical in design than the Hammond is the tailless plane developed in California by an oldtime test pilot named Waldo Deane Waterman. Tall, sandy-haired, pipe-smoking Inventor Waterman, previously known for his experiments with a low-wing tailless monoplane called the Waterman Whatsit, has produced as his new model a high-wing ship called the Arrowplane. This highly unconventional design features V-shaped wings which sweep back to tapering tips on which are mounted vertical rudder fins. The ailerons are so rigged that they also serve as elevators, thus simplifying control. The chunky two-place cabin...
Most modern aircraft use two kinds of brakes: wheel-brakes on the ground, and "air brakes" (wing flaps) to reduce flying speed. Last week a third kind of brake was being tested on Pan American Airways' big transoceanic Clipper Ships...
...Commission. Since Ferdinand Pecora resigned to become a New York justice. Commissioner Landis has been the sole SECommissioner with authentic New Deal credentials. Businessmen used to be terrified by his brilliant mind and by his saturnine eyes. Lately they have found him more sympathetic (see cut). Under the Landis wing are SEC's research divisions...