Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republicans were amused and delighted. In a hammer-&-tongs fight for the Democratic nomination from Washington's First Congressional District (Seattle), left-wing Representative Hugh De Lacey and rabble-rousing, opportunistic Howard Costigan were tearing an old friendship to shreds. When both appealed for help to the heirs of Franklin Roosevelt, even family ties snapped under the strain...
...Wing...
...plane was a strange sight. Its 230-ft. wing (v. 141 feet for the 6-29) was set halfway back in the 163-ft., cigar-shaped fuselage. In the leading edge of the wing, where conventional planes have their propellers, XB-36 had only narrow, mouthlike air intakes for the six Pratt & Whitney 3,000-h.p. engines. They drive three-bladed propellers on the wing's trailing edge...
...years Abraham Heller had moved unobtrusively in the shadowy half-world of the U.S. far left wing. Born in Minsk, Russia, 71 years ago, he turned up in the U.S. in 1891, started a jewel-importing business, married a New York girl. He made money fast. Soon he opened a Paris branch, moved to France...
...next year he visited Russia, won rights for the sale of liquid gases to the U.S.S.R. Back in Manhattan, he organized the International Publishers Association (51% Comintern-owned), spent $115,000 in the next decade on the publication of left-wing books and pamphlets. He dug deep into his jeans to bolster the shaky finances of the Daily Worker...