Word: winging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...S.H.P. likes land reform, but it also distinctly favors private land ownership. By classic standards it is slightly left of center, but it comprises the right wing of the present democratic bloc, and it is nonsocialist. The S.H.P. recently gained urban strength in the Budapest municipal elections, and it was expected up to last week-to gain rural strength in the national elections...
...towns. Then in 1925 he and Alexander Kahn, whom he had met in the detention home, were charged with a murder. Kahn turned King's evidence, was freed, disappeared after pinning the murder on Fulker. Michael Fulker was found mentally unbalanced, was finally locked up in the mental wing of Bordeaux Jail. There for 20 years he was a model inmate, worked as a guard's helper. Only once did he get a brief glimpse of Montreal, when a friendly guard let him peep through a telescope...
Nothing New Needed. The dream planes were still in the distant, dreamy future. Example : Consolidated Vultee still tinkered with a "controllable wing" plane which looked like a combination plane and auto. But the light plane it got into production was a new version of the prewar, four-place Stinson Voyager. Nor was anyone else yet ready to turn out anything radically different. The happy fact was that none was needed, at present...
This flying flivver (which is actually flying) has no ailerons, elevators or rudder. A movable wing, which can be tipped in any direction by a single steering-wheel, takes over the work of all three. A motor behind the passenger compartment spins a pusher propeller that sticks out where the rudder would normally be. The front wheels are steerable, as in an automobile. The plane's sponsors, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., admit that the loose-jointed wing is still in the experimental stage. But they hope that the perfected version will make light airplanes as easy to manage...
...Metropolitan Opera's under-lunged Italian tenor wing has been huffing & puffing, in a vain attempt to bring the house down, ever since 1941. That was when the Met's Swedish mainstay, Jussi Björling, was refused a transit visa to cross Nazi-occupied countries. Björling stayed in Sweden, packed the red and gold Royal Opera House in Stockholm. Last week 34-year-old Tenor Björling reached the U.S. by plane, the first European artist to return to the Met's roster since the war began...