Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairwarmer, unless the chair is a pilot's seat (he has 15,000 solo hours). So first he married Olive Ann, then he quit Curtiss to organize Beech Aircraft in 1932. His first break came when he startled the industry with his "reverse stagger" biplane (lower wing ahead of upper). Called unairworthy at the time, Beech biplanes are still the only single-engined private craft able to do 250 m.p.h...
Juan Antonio Rios, candidate of the Radical Party, who looked like the best bet. A banker and onetime Minister of the Interior, he represents the right wing of the Radical Party and is strongly antiCommunist. A Radical split had loomed when Rios and Gabriel González Videla divided the vote of the nominating convention and a special tribunal had to be set up to decide the party's nominee. But last week, when the tribunal decided for Rios, Leftist Gonzalez, who had been the late President's personal choice, announced that he would manage Rios' campaign...
...American-operated China National Aviation Company, which specializes in such spectacular aerial adventures as flying a DC3 with a patched-up DC2 wing, threading across Japanese lines at night and aiding in the evacuation of doomed Chinese cities, added another hair-raising chapter to its history last week...
...last fortnight's opening 350 pieces had been brought together, studied, documented and installed in a new wing built jointly by Karolik and the museum. Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall headed a long list of Back Bay notables who gathered to gaze and admire. But Maxim Karolik was not there. He had slipped out a back door as the distinguished guests walked in the front entrance. "I consider it iss correct, it iss even chic that the Karoliks should not go to the opening," he explained. "It iss better that the collection should shine by its own glory...
...Collector Karolik's greatest satisfaction came not with the opening of the new wing, but three days later when his chief rival, No. 1 U.S. Antique Collector Henry du Pont, tripped up to Boston to look over the work of the upstart. "For his opinion I wass waiting," said Karolik. "He wass bowled ofer...