Word: curtiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albert Bond Lambert (Listerine), they were: Banker Harold McMillan Bixby, credited with naming the Lindbergh plane Spirit of St. Louis; the late Banker Harry F. Knight, his son & partner Harry Hall Knight; Publisher E. Lansing Ray of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Major William Bryan Robertson, vice president of Curtiss-Wright Airplane Co.. Earl C. Thompson, then operator of a one-plane sightseeing service at St. Louis Airport, now selling stocks, bonds & insurance at Kennett...
Born in San Diego, Calif, of an old Castilian family, Bert Acosta was a professional automobile racer at 13. In 1910, aged 15, he learned to fly in a ship he built himself as a copy of a Curtiss "pusher." Year later he began working for Glenn Curtiss, went to Canada in 1914 to teach Royal Air Force students to fly. Afterward he taught U. S. Army pilots, became a captain in the Wartime Air Service, returned to Curtiss after the Armistice...
...Past winners: Orville and Wilbur Wright jointly in 1909; Glenn Curtiss, Gustave Eiffel, 1913; Charles Lindbergh, 1927; Charles Matthews Manly (posthumously), Richard Evelyn Byrd...
Silence in the observation train. The entire flotills of destroyers, patrol boats, canoes, yachts, and excursion steamers which follow the wake of the racing shells seem to pause in absolute quiet. Clearly, Referee Curtiss voice rings out for all to hear, "Are you ready...
...protruding, lined up like as many centipedes on the west side of the Hudson river, each held in place by a marker bost. That is the scene upon which the spectators in the 40 flatcars look. The official yacht draws up astern. An old, but erect man, Julian W. Curtiss, a Yale oarsman of the seventies and referee for almost three decades, steps forward...