Word: whirlwinds
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...gasoline 60 mi. from Russia, the kidnappers jumped out, left Dr. and Mrs. Stahlberg to walk to the nearest town. They got home safely but the country was shocked. In Finland the Lapua (antiCommunist) Movement had just succeeded in driving Communism out of the Diet after a whirlwind election campaign whose tactics included kidnapping Communists and booting them over the Soviet frontier. Dr. Stahlberg had been rumored as listed among the bootees not as a Communist but as a Progressive, oldtime foe of the conservative parties. Finns have regarded the Communist kidnappings with marked complacency, but kidnapping their George Washington...
...whirlwind crescendo rose last week the fortunes of the new liberal party, recently founded in Turkey (TIME, Oct. 6) because Dictator Mustafa Kemal ("The Modernizer") wanted his country to have an "opposition party" like other modern states...
Democratic Gains. Whether they eventually won or lost the House, Democrats had achieved sweeping gains in last fortnight's anti-Hoover whirlwind. Subject to official revision, they had taken 52 seats from Republican incumbents, lost just one (the 8th Illinois District). Their tentative 51-seat gain was scattered as follows: Connecticut 2; Illinois 6; Indiana 6; Iowa 1; Kentucky 6; Maryland 2; Missouri 6; Nebraska 2; New Jersey i; New Mexico 1; North Carolina 2; Ohio 6; Oklahoma 2; Oregan 1; Pennsylvania 3; Virginia 2; West Virginia 1; Wisconsin 1. They had routed two Republican Drys (Ohio's Morgan, Illinois...
...Long Island estate to raise funds, he completed his nine-cylinder models. By that time Wright Aeronautical Corp. foresaw the collapse of the market for water-cooled types which it had been building. In 1923 Wright bought out Lawrance Aero Engine Corp. and acquired the founder. Soon afterward the Whirlwind series was born...
Coste v. Lindbergh. In everyone's mind last week was a comparison of the two feats-Lindbergh's & Coste's. Lindbergh, alone in a Ryan monoplane powered by a 200 h. p. Wright Whirlwind motor, without radio, flew eastward 3,610 mi. in 33 hr. 29 min. His fuel load was 425 gal., his average speed 107 m. p. h. An earth inductor compass, a magnetic compass on the conventional instrument board and maps were his navigating facilities. The westward flight, as every layman knows, is immeasurably more difficult largely because of prevailing headwinds. The Question Mark...