Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly barred from the U. S. on the assumption that he was. "I am a militant unionist. I should per-haps explain that a left winger like myself in Japan is actually much further to the right than a left winger in America. I adhere to the left wing group of workers' unions in Japan who are striving to overthrow Capitalism by means of the class struggle. Organized workers in Japan number 380,000 out of a total working class population of 5,770,000. Naturally the proletariat of Japan is opposed to the Government's activities...
...Military Academy. Up to the dock where waited President Justo, and in their shiniest toppers, his entire Cabinet, warped the great São Paulo. Guns belched out national salutes, and in the midst of the hubbub there was suddenly a great banging of crate lids and fluttering of wings. Members of the Buenos Aires Pigeon Society were releasing 10,000 bewildered white birds, each with one wing striped blue and white for Argentina, the other yellow and green for Brazil...
...Pyle). What he could not refuse were the thousands of gifts which poured in on him from the ends of the earth. Because a handful of St. Louis businessmen had backed him with $15,000, he sent his trophies to the Missouri Historical Society, which housed them in a wing of the Jefferson Memorial at Forest Park. St. Louis. The Spirit of St. Louis he sent to Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
...Bureau of Air Commerce has long had a pet idea: let aircraft manufacturers produce a plane cheap enough for the average man, power it with an automobile engine. Last week his idea neared realization when Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Co. of Marshall, Mo. announced the Plymacoupe-a graceful high-wing cabin monoplane with a standard 6-cyl. Plymouth engine. Expected price...
...Southern Cross did not fall into the sea. Clutching a vacuum bottle, "Bill" Taylor climbed out on a wing, braced himself against a strut, transferred oil from the starboard to the port tanks. When he had braved, the howling wind six times he had a gallon of oil, and the port motor started up again. Seven hours later Kingsford-Smith nursed his crippled ship back to Sydney. Haggard and drawn, he told newsmen: "Bill Taylor is the world's greatest hero. No other man could have done...