Word: fairchild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardworking, conscientious President Coburn had his critics in the directorate. Some said he erred in his manufacturing policy. When, last year, youthful Sherman Mills Fairchild retrieved his Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Co. Inc. and aerial camera companies from Avco, the corporation retained the Fairchild airplane factory at Farmingdale, L. I. and proceeded to build a new single-engine mail-&-passenger plane called the Pilgrim. This manufacturing operation, said Mr. Coburn's critics, was extravagant. The plane, they said, is already obsolete. Others found fault with the president's insistence on burdening himself with detailed responsibility (by which he threatened...
Other scholarships awarded to first year law students were: Shelton Hale: to A. L. Dougan, of St. Louis, Missouri; Herbert Parker: to E. H. Kent, of Newtonville; Robert T. Swaine: to R. H. Lindman, of Santa Ana, California; Sidney Thompson Fairchild: to E. E. Ford, of New York City; William Cheney Brown: to G. H. Schwartz, of Sea Gate, New York; Harvard Law School Association of New York: to K. C. Davis, of Spokane, Washington; and A. M. Johnson, of Rosholy, Wisconsin; Faculty Scholarships: to B. S. Jefferson, of Los Angeles, California; J. W. Kelleher, of Berea, Ohio...
...Fairly creaking under a heavy load of fuel, a four-year-old Fairchild monoplane named Miss U. S. S. Louisville lurched clumsily down the concrete runway of New York's Floyd Bennett Field, wobbled from side to side, finally skidded into the soft grass and wrecked its landing gear. Out of the cabin crawled two rueful young men with 80? in their pockets and a strange story to tell. They had just attempted a take-off "to Portugal." Both men-Frank Gushing and Andrew Soos Jr.-were sailors absent without leave from the U. S. S. Louisville which fortnight...
...award was founded in 1888. The awarding committee for this year consisted of Dr. Charles Schuchert of Yale, Dr. Henry A. Pilsbury of the Philadelphia Academy, Dr. Henry Fairchild Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History and others...
Alexander Graham Bell Fairchild, of Miami, Florida...