Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Washington last week in the new Fokker "flying wing" observation plane (TIME, Sept. 29) flew Pilot-Lieut. Harrison G. Crocker and Fokker Engineer Stephen A. Forberger, co-designer of the craft. Over the city's outskirts one of the Fokker's gasoline tanks ran dry, cutting both motors. Aware that Pilot Crocker, who had never flown the plane before, would not know what valve to turn. Engineer Forberger hastily clambered up through the cowling of his front cockpit and started back over the wing to direct him. Meanwhile the pilot who had no time to lower the plane...
Newspictures is at best a losing business. Through the pace-setting enterprise of the Hearst services, and the entry of Associated Press into the picture field, competition has become more costly than ever. Last week P. & A. Photos Inc. (owned by New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune) decided after nine years trial that the burden was unwarranted, sold out to Scripps-Howard's Acme News Pictures Inc. Head of the combined service will be Acme's small, dapper, wisely-smiling President Fred S. Ferguson. To help President Ferguson cover the world as A. P. does, United Press...
...smoking room of the S.S. President Hayes, steaming westward across the warm Pacific last week a stocky, owlish man with horn-rimmed spectacles regaled his fellow male passengers with the sort of stories told in smoking-rooms. When one of the others would tell a "good one" which the stocky man by chance did not already know, the stocky man promptly filed it in his inexhaustible mental library. His interest was professional, not queasy, for he was Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett, founder and publisher of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. He and his wife .Annette were bound...
...phase of the Army Air Corps program is to be able to send officers and supplies to any Army base in the U. S. or its near possessions in ten hours. Last week Detroit Aircraft Corp. delivered to the Army its bid for fulfillment of that plan: a "cleaned up" Lockheed with new landing gear devoid of all but two exposed struts; a cowled Wasp engine with supercharger. Speed claimed: 210 m.p.h.- "fastest transport plane in the world." To Commander Glen Kidston, rich British sportsman, Detroit Aircraft was to ship this week "the most expensive single- motored plane ever built...
Seventeen years ago the primitive, pagan rhythms of Le Sacre du Printemps established Russian Igor Stravinsky as the most original, most compelling of modern composers. Last week in Boston his Symphonic de Psaumes (Symphony of Psalms), in spirit far removed from his sensual celebration of fertility, was given as a part of the Boston Symphony's ambitious semicentennial program. The new Stravinsky takes as text three excerpts from the Psalms (in the English version: Psalm XXXIX, Verses 12, 13; XL: 1, 2, 3; CL complete), uses a chorus to describe in Latin the transition from abject penitence to exultant...