Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that very little can be known definitely about what Commander Byrd may expect to find at the South Pole", said Professor D. W. Whittlesey in answer to questions put to him by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...opportunity to put his thought before the younger Guggenheim. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Leland Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, the University of Washington received between them almost $1,200,000 for schools of aeronautics. The Fund helped publicize the Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd flights to Europe, gave U. S. aviation the impetus it needed...
...Fund financed Lindbergh and Byrd in their undertakings. Fund money supported a weather service on the Pacific Coast, which the U. S. Government now runs. More money went to help the Royal Aeronautical Society (England), Aero-Club de France, Associazone Italiana d'Aerotecnica, Aero Club von Deutschland to collect and disseminate important technical information which otherwise would not be published. Syracuse University got $30,000 to develop aerial photographic surveying and mapping. For a flying laboratory in which to try out instruments which would permit flyers to go through fog and darkness went several thousand dollars; for prizes...
Another Australian, by adoption, is Sir Douglas Mawson. In his native Yorkshire fashion he is as handsome as Commander Byrd in his Virginia fashion. Sir Douglas knows the Antarctic better than does Sir Hubert or Commander Byrd. In 1907, when he was a scientific lecturer at Adelaide University, Australia, he was assigned to the staff of the late Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. He ascended Mt. Erebus and journeyed to the South Magnetic Pole. In 1911-14 he led the Australasian Antarctic expedition. Last week he was at Capetown, South Africa, ready to depart with the Discovery, stout...
...From its 17 factories pours every conceivable kind of bottle, from one-tenth ounce perfume containers to freaks of 13-gallon capacity. Some 2,000,000 nursing bottles are produced each month, and many more pop bottles. Owens Bottle Co. made thousands of specially inscribed bottles for Commander Richard Byrd to release in antarctic seas for ocean current tests. President of the company is William H. Boshart, onetime bookkeeper in Toledo's Eagle Brewery. Owens Bottle has made many a millionaire. The original investors, it is said, have garnered $25,000 for each dollar invested...