Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...portent came last week, when the President fought with his onetime friend Jim Farley for control of New York's 94 delegates to the Democratic National Convention (see p. 20), Another, perhaps more significant, had passed unnoticed except by the close observers: into an office in the new wing of the White House, as one of the "anonymous assistants," had moved swarthy, soft-voiced David K. Niles, political tipster and fixer extraordinary, a smooth operator who wangled $500,000 from the United Mine Workers for the 1936 Democratic war chest and who was undercover man for the New Deal...
...Louis factory last week announced a new process for making certain airplane parts of paper. In the McDonnell Aircraft Corp., layers of paper are bound together with plastic, formed into wing tips, rudders, etc. Company officials boasted that an experimentally produced wing tip was stronger and lighter than one made of aluminum...
...swank, black Packard whispered over the mud-covered asphalt street, drew up at the new south wing of the District of Columbia's ancient red-brick jail. Out in the rain stepped greying Coroner Dr. A. Magruder McDonald. In the dim-lit vestibule a dozen reporters sat on death watch for the eight submarine-borne Nazi saboteurs. Some of them had waited more than 24 hours. The Coroner had nothing to say. But his mere presence told them their vigil would soon be over...
...early afternoon the watch got the word-not from the jail, but from the White House. The electrocutions had begun at noon in the jail's new death chamber atop the south wing. There, in a small room on an old, wooden chair behind a glass partition separating them from official witnesses, six of the spies, their heads in rubber masks with nose-and-mouth slits, had sat to die. Four executioners pulled the switches; in an hour and 20 minutes it was all over...
...Roosevelt had endorsed a statement, sponsored by the American Labor Party's Communist-dominated left wing, to support only politicos pledged to an all-out war effort. She thought she was giving her blessing to a program of the entire Labor Party. But in recent weeks the Red left wing has been using the months-old letter in an effort to show that she supported them against the merely pinko right wing. The President's wife, as angry as she permits herself to get, wrote a stinging rebuke to the Red wing...