Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the hostilities was Pembroke Stephens, crackman from the London Telegraph. He was machine-gunned while watching the siege of Shanghai from a water tower in the French Concession. Two New York Timesmen, Hallett Abend and Anthony James Billingham, were wounded when the Chinese accidentally bombed the Wing On department store in Shanghai...
...still interested, $35,000 will be allotted to cover the cost to the builders of further estimates. As nothing a third the size has ever been constructed in the U. S., airmen last week dazed themselves with such speculations of the completed ship as its wing spread, 200 ft.; fuselage, 200 ft. by 25 ft.; weight, 200,000 Ib. with six engines each 2,000 h.p. Only the memory of P. A. A. and Colonel Lindbergh's plans for the first Clipper six years ago-then dubbed "impossible" and called the "flying miracle"^-saved the idea from being utterly...
Stubbs will be experimenting with revised second and third lines tonight which he hopes will strengthen the Crimson both offensively and defensively. Austie Harding moves from his third line center position to left wing on the second line with Joe Patrick and Ralph Pope. Win Jameson will center Pete Stone and Fred DeRham on the third...
...future of high airplane flying depends more on propeller than on wing design," said Major Albert W. Stevens, famous stratosphere explorer, in a lecture before 150 people, at the Geographical Institute last night...
...Faces-Even at this unseasonable period, however, the seeds of reform were sprouting within N.A.M. And the sprouts were diligently cultivated by a group of men who, if not Reds, were progressive enough to realize that times had changed since the days of William McKinley. Among the flowing stocks, wing collars and morning coats of the N.A.M. veterans, they were distinctly new faces. Significantly, most of them had made their public names since 1929. Typical of the N.A.M. "progressives" are men like President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp., Henning Webb Prentis Jr. of Armstrong Cork, Tobaccoman Williams, Chairman...