Word: courtney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...landing in the midst of harbor traffic, deftly hurdled a menacing piece of driftwood, brought up within a stone's throw of the Battery seawall. The four men, in their five-year-old plane (which had already served the late Roald Amundsen in the Arctic and Capt. Frank Courtney in the Atlantic) had flown 4,670 mi. in 47 flying hours?nine days elapsed time...
Recalcitrant Julian (cont.). Greatly angered and perturbed were oilmen when Oilman Charles Courtney Julian last fortnight denounced curtailment, said, "It's the bunk" (TIME, Sept. 1). Last week Scoffer Julian showed no signs of penitence but obtained an injunction preventing the State Corporation Commission from taking any action against his oil company for non-curtailment. If Mr. Julian succeeds in proving that proration by law is "unconstitutional and void," the unhappy oil industry may again be in a grave crisis...
Recalcitrant Julian. Among last week's many oil events, prominent was the renascent publicity of Charles Courtney Julian, remembered well in California, hitherto obscure in Oklahoma...
...state proration order. Said Mr. Julian: "It's the bunk." On the surface last week it seemed his victory. For the list of 73 officials of 59 companies cited for violating the curtailment agreement by the Oklahoma Corpo ration Commission did not include the name of Charles Courtney Julian. But these cases, said the Commission, were mostly not willful ones. Mr. Julian, said the Attorney General's office, will be cited later, alone...
...Fritz Albrecht, Franz Hack had taken off from the school's seaplane port at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt. Their plane, a two-motored Dornier-Wal flying boat, was the same used by Roald Amundsen in his attempted Polar flight of 1925, and by Capt. Frank Courtney in an unsuccessful Atlantic flight...