Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Katherine Ames Byrd, 23, second of three daughters of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd; and Robert Garnett Breyer, 29, strapping ex-Army major employed in an automobile agency; in Boston...
...peak, hidden in rain and fog, fishermen heard an explosion that echoed from cliff to cliff. The Kvitbjoern, bound from Tromso to Oslo, burned for several hours. None of its 27 passengers and eight crewmen survived. It was the worst disaster ever for the Norwegian Airlines (headed by Admiral Byrd's old pilot, Bernt Balchen...
...maiden, pocket-sized issue went to 4,000 white-collar girls-and used up all the subscription money they had paid in. To keep going, Betty went to a bank (for $1,000), to Dallas Oilman Harold D. Byrd (for $5,000 and a partnership), and to 90 Texans whom she invited to a free chicken dinner. With dessert she served a 45-minute speech, talked 45 of her guests into buying $8,600 worth of stock...
...Senate, Republicans had picked up the potent support of tight-fisted Democrat Harry Byrd, who figured that 61 Senators were sure to approve; by next year they would be voting for tax cuts anyway. The Senate agreed to vote in time to have the measure on Harry Truman's desk at least ten days before adjournment, thus prevent a pocket veto (i.e., killing the bill by inaction after Congress is out of session...
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, No. 1 polar explorer of the past two decades, prepared at 58 to retire from the Navy. He had a new job awaiting him as a director of a South Carolina cotton textile firm...