Word: curtiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Eleanor, daughter of Richard Farnsworth Hoyt, board chairman of Curtiss-Wright Corp.; and Alexis Felix du Pont Jr. of Wilmington, heir to $60.000,000 (estimated); at Marion, Mass...
...instant Crusader Hall alighted at Havana, President William Pawley of Curtiss Aviation Co. of Cuba handed him a Cuban cocktail. After gulping it, Crusader Hall ejaculated, "That alone was worth the trip!" Then he ordered another.-ED. Convict Kylsant...
Married. Mrs. Lena P. Curtiss, 51, widow of Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer & tycoon who died last year; and H. Sayre Wheeler, 39, Mayor of Opa Locka, Fla., President of Curtiss-Aero-Car Co. (bus-type trailers, built like an airplane cabin), onetime associate of Pioneer Curtiss; in Atlantic City...
John Barry Ryan, son-in-law of Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, called Vice President Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones of Curtiss-Wright Corp. on the telephone at 3:30 a. m. Mr. Ryan said he wanted Mr. Jones to fly to Southampton and to Boston with some books that morning. Mr. Jones agreed and four hours later alighted at Piping Rock Country Club where Mr. Ryan handed him books addressed to Mrs. Ryan, to Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, Cardinal O'Connell and Eleonora Sears. The books were copies of Verses by Barry Vail. "Barry Vail" is John Barry Ryan. Sample...
...slight wedge was this. Behind it to the North was the combined force of the $878,626,000-in-assets Great Northern and the $868,915,000 Northern Pacific. Awaiting it in the South was the $110,111,000 Western Pacific, pet road of Arthur Curtiss James. When by the first of next year the track-laying crews have finished their work, 200 miles of new rails will connect Klamath Falls and Bieber, Calif., will link the Northern transcontinental routes with Western Pacific. The track will feed new traffic to both systems, will also bring competition to Southern Pacific...