Word: ferguson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parents as a reward for high marks. Also on board was Mrs. Meyer C. Ellenstein, wife of the Mayor of Newark, bound for St. Louis to visit a daughter. The plane's hostess was a neat, slight, dark girl of 22 named Nellie Granger. The chief pilot, Otto Ferguson, had been flying since the War. This was his 42nd birthday and his family had arranged a party for him at Kansas City...
Booming along between 3,000 and 4,000 ft., the Sun Racer crossed the Alleghenies in a cold fog. Over the radiotelephone from the airport at Pittsburgh came reassuring word of good visibility below 1,700 ft. Pilot Ferguson listened to the staccato hum of the radio-beacon in his earphones, reported his position as ten miles east of Pittsburgh, said he was coming down to land. Nellie Granger poked her head into the pilot's cabin, asked him what time they would be down. Said Ferguson, "About 10:12." The hostess went aft, saw that the eleven passengers...
...Pittsburgh airport the minutes ticked by. At 10:33 a TWA plane landed, but it was not the Sun Racer. Soon the air was full of monotonous, unanswered calls: Pittsburgh calling Flight I. . . . Columbus calling Ferguson on Flight I. . . . Camden calling Flight I. . . . Pittsburgh calling Flight...
Beside the student committee there is also a faculty committee appointed from University Hall. The three men on it are: Raphael Demos, assistant professor of Philosophy and tutor in the Division of Philosophy and Psychology, William S. Ferguson, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, and Jeffries Wyman '23, assistant professor of Zoology and tutor in the Division of Biology...
...same time Professor Black announced the election of William Scott Ferguson, professor of History, Edwin F. Gay, professor of Economic History, Arthur N. Holcombe '04, professor of Government, and Pitrim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, as members of the executive committee to administer the social science research program this year. Professor Black is a member exofficio...