Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German, Ludwig Katterfeld arrived in the U. S., worked on a Nebraska farm, graduated from a college in Kansas where he majored in sociology. He got interested in labor problems, joined the Socialist party, rose to a position of some influence, acted as a circulation executive for several left-wing publications. Meanwhile he made a living as a salesman. Now his crusade for scientific truth absorbs him entirely and he takes no active interest in politics, although he hates the German Nazis...
...Massachusetts-born & bred, left his job as newshawk to go to France with the A.E.F. as a private, came out as a sergeant. In 1925 he went back to France, worked on the Paris editions of the Chicago Tribune, New York Herald, with Eugene Jolas founded the literary left-wing review transition (TIME, July 13). An accomplished musician, Author Paul is an authority on the clavichord and harpsichord, is now working on a "musical novel" (his eighth) in Manhattan. He hopes to get back to Iviza "some...
...most interesting of the new Army planes is a gigantic Boeing scheduled for first test flights this week at Seattle. A four-motored, mid-wing monoplane of lines similar to the famed Boeing "flying fortress" launched two years ago, of which the Army ordered 13 at a reputed $196,000 each, the new bomber is much bigger, much more efficient. The new Boeing is reported to weigh 20 tons, have a speed above 250 m.p.h. with eight tons of bombs...
...during their two-week stay to help keep their discipline and deportment up to its high U. S. standard. For their official appearance, the Rockettes will dance four of their most famous routines in 16 minutes: Military March, in which 72 legs operate as synchronously as two; a buck & wing number; Midshipmen, a fast, stylized version of Annapolis drills; Beguine, a sultry, rumba-ish performance for which the girls make up like mulattoes...
...Ford bowled over by a Ford or William Knudsen by a Chevrolet, he would feel as President Jack Frye of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. felt when, landing at Pittsburgh with ten other passengers in a TWA plane, the tail wheel snagged and the big Douglas ground-looped, smacking its wing into a temporary grandstand. Injuries: none...