Word: elwood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Boulder Dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, became effective. California's Senator Johnson and Representative Swing stood by, rejoicing over their seven-year job, done at last. Each legislator got one of the pens. The third pen was handed to a Hearst newspaperman. Dr. Elwood Mead, chief of the U. S. Reclamation Service (Interior Department), immediately sent a telegram to his chief engineer at Denver, directing him to mobilize a construction army and begin the $165,000,000 project forthwith. In Southern California and Nevada, people fired shotguns and banged on frying pans...
...Looking back I was stunned to see the rear engine enveloped in flames, which even as I looked, stretched out like a giant blowlamp rearwards over the seat occupied by Elwood Hosmer and beyond the rudder and tail. In the darkness the whole machine must have appeared like a grotesque red comet. The whole situation seemed like a nightmare and quite unreal. Even now I find it difficult to realize we were in a blazing airplane over mid-Atlantic at midnight . . . seemed impossible to put down safely in the dark on a burning seaplane which still had a ton overload...
Approaching St. Johns, N. B., Major General Fechet's pilot, Lieutenant Muir Fairchild, had an attack of appendicitis. A relief pilot, Lieutenant Elwood Auesada, flew up from Boston and the expedition continued...
Died. Jonathan Dixon Maxwell, 64, famed pioneer of the automobile industry; of pneumonia; at his home in Chesterton, Md. Starting his career as a bicycle tinker in Kokomo, Ind., Maxwell, with two others, Elmer Apperson and Elwood Haynes, built the first automobile manufactured in the U. S. (now stabled in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). His plant at Tarrytown, N. Y., founded in 1904, became a thriving automobile centre, turned out the first cars (Maxwell-Briscoe) at the $500 mark. Maxwell's large Detroit works were used by bankers, who acquired control of the business during the pleasure...
Richard Hinckley Field 2L., of Phillips, Maine, was chosen for the position of treasurer. He succeeds in office Carlyle Elwood Maw 2L., of Provo, Utah. Field graduated from the University with the class of '26 and is a former president of the CRIMSON...