Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...future of American aviation rests in the hands of the youth of the country, especially in the hands of the college men," stated Lieutenant-Commander Richard Byrd in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Fortunately, there is something about flying that has captivated the imagination of young Americans. Almost every young boy, for instance, is intensely interested in aeronautics. So long as this spirit persists, our progress in the air will be guaranteed...
...York Times triple-column-headed a cablegram from Manhattan publisher George Palmer Putnam who had just discovered the secret of Professor Marvin's death while visiting Whale Sound in North Greenland. Times readers, well schooled to palpitate at Arctic news by the Times elaborate accounts of the Byrd and the Norge polar flights (TIME, May 17 and 24), were roused to a dignified excitement...
Polar Flyer Richard Evelyn Byrd: "A letter which has followed me over the U. S. since May 15 has reached me. It contained an odd request from one E. R. Davis, advertising man of Tacoma, Wash., for an exclusive contract to erect signs at the North Pole. He offered to pay for this right $1,000 per annum, from the date he constructed his first sign there. I signed the contract instantly, and returned it to Mr. Davis. What manner of signs he may erect if from a bedroom 'hung with soft draperies and filled with cushioned chairs...
Fokker. At a dinner given by the Wright Aeronautical Co. in honor of Poleflyers Byrd and Bennett, up stood Anthony H. G. Fokker, Dutch designer of most of Germany's wartime planes, of the Pole-reaching Josephine Ford and many another efficient machine, to announce that he so believed in the U. S. as the chief flying nation of the future that he had determined to become a citizen, permanently coming over from the ranks of European engineers...
...committee headed by Lieut. Commander Richard E. ("North Pole") Byrd will supervise the S-35's takeoff, inspect and seal her fuel tanks, bid the final Godspeed...