Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clement and Mulcahey in the 175 lb. and Stone and Ferrid in the 135 lb. classes grappled to extra-period dead-locks. The Yardlings' quickest win was Bob Benchley's 1:12 pinning of Wright. The other Freshman points came from Jim Redman's 6:53 clutch of Burham in the 121 lb. class. Blaine, Conlin, and Sullivan dropped their bouts...
...take some of the load off the pilot, Curtiss-Wright Corporation last week announced a new wrinkle, to be used in its big CW20 transport under construction in its St. Louis factory. When the CW20 pilot is ready to land, he will throw a switch marked "land." A series of bulbs on the instrument board will light, and as he gets his landing gear down, lowers his flaps, cranks back his stabilizer, et al., the lights will go out, one by one. By other switches, he can check his operations for takeoff, or for any other operations. When the instrument...
...since 1932, when Representative Wright Patman attacked Andrew Mellon, has such a resolution been seen in Congress. Not since the Senate voted that President Coolidge should fire Secretary of the Navy Denby for his part in the oil scandals has one been adopted. Unlike Secretary Denby, who resigned, Miss Perkins, who knew she would not be impeached, welcomed a showdown. She repeated what she and her colleagues have said all along: that the only ground on which Harry Bridges might be deported is that he belongs to the Communist Party, which he denies and which has not been established...
Also published last week was the news that France has just doubled an order made last year for 100 Curtiss-Wright Pursuit ships of a type already in U. S. Army use, and plans to buy perhaps 400 more planes (reportedly through financing arranged with Franklin Roosevelt's assistance...
...also one of the first salvations of a box office; that mother love and dying for one's country are not only the stuff of great art but also the surefire cliches of popular entertainment; that a cavalcade of the past-Bryan and T. R., the Wright Brothers and Lindbergh, hobble skirts and high-buttoned shoes-is a perfect ace-in-the-hole...