Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fuller '30 of the Harvard Flying Club, piloted the club plane in the third cross country flight of the fall from Boston to South Dartmouth, outside New Bedford. Fuller carried one passenger and made the trip of 125 miles in 80 minutes...
...irrigation, transportation and agricultural development of the Texas Gulf coast and lower Rio Grande valley. Last year he supported the Hoover ticket when his fellow Democrats refused to take his advice on Farm Relief. Died. Mrs. Mary J. Forrest Fontaine, 84, sister of the famed Confederate Generals Nathan Bedford, Jesse, and Jeffry Forrest; in Dallas, Tex. Died. Mrs. Margaret Stevens, 94, onetime Civil War hospital worker, a founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,* at Pricetown, Ohio. She had six brothers (and six sisters) who said they never smoked or drank...
...tremendously increased demand for petrol enabled Mr. Teagle to develop Imperial Oil from a small company to the second largest corporation in the Dominion. Then, in 1917, when the U. S. entered the War, Mr. Teagle was made president of Standard of New Jersey (A. C. Bedford was moved up to the board chairmanship) to repeat his successes in Wartime expansion. In 1927 he supervised the reorganization of Standard of New Jersey from an operating company to its present holding company status. He was one of the first oilmen to foresee the necessity of restricting the oil output...
Lawrence Witherspoon Dickey, of Bedford Hills, New York...
...Flying Club's Travelair made its third long distance flight of the year Wednesday, when H. W. Fuller '30, with R. S. Osborne '30 as passenger, flew the plane from the East Boston Airport to South Dartmouth, near New Bedford on the Cape...