Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French voter in every ten voted the straight Communist ticket last week. About the same number voted for the extreme Nationalist (right wing) ticket...
...Communists, Socialists and left-wing Radical Socialists who form the Popular Front can stick to their plan of united action through the run-off elections, they should control the next Chamber, should be able to form the next Cabinet. Their united votes last week were less than had been anticipated, about 50% of the 10,000,000 cast. Thus chances were that the Left Front can form a government only by coin-promising with the Right in the traditional French manner. During the life of the last Chamber of Deputies France changed Cabinets eleven times...
...Force: Vice Marshal Christopher Lloyd Courtney, Deputy Chief of Staff; Group Captain A. T. Harris; Wing Commander J. O. Andrews...
Immediately Right Wing parties charged the Socialists and Communists with being eager to foment a war, suggested that it might be wise to pay a little more attention to Germany's case, and to deal directly with the Nazi Government...
Just before dawn broke over the Caribbean, Captain Wallace Culbertson gunned his four motors for the takeoff. Skimming along at 50 m. p. h. he spied a small launch directly in his path. Although he swerved, a wing pontoon grazed the launch and the big plane skidded in a wild half-circle. The fragile hull split open and water poured in. Twenty-two desperate men & women scrambled to escape by hatchways and portholes. When the Clipper sank up to the overhead wing, two passengers and a steward were trapped, drowned...