Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white, hard beach were the Yellow Bird and the Green Flash, a Bellanca monoplane with Wright Whirlwind motor which Roger Q. Williams and Lewis E. Yancey planned to fly to Rome. The Yellow Bird was going to Paris. The two planes warmed up simultaneously. The Yellow Bird took off first, her tail drooping unusually. The Green Flash in starting crumpled a wheel and wrecked itself...
...months later Alcock was killed alighting at Rouen. Theirs was the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic. Lieut.-Commander Alber C. Read, U. S. Navy, and his companions stopped at the Azores on their Newfoundland-Portugal flight...
...down the large molecules of gas oil and fuel oil into small molecules of gasoline. From two gallons of gas oil and fuel oil so treated, approximately one gallon of gasoline could be produced. This breaking down or splitting of the molecules was called cracking. The cracking process was first (1910) commercially perfected by William M. Burton, Standard Oil of Indiana chemist. Later Texas Co. developed the Holmes-Manley process, Standard of New Jersey the tube-and-tank process, and Gasoline Products Corp. the Cross process. Other processes followed and the petroleum industry found itself in the midst of patent...
Large among San Francisco banks are Crocker First National, Crocker First Federal Trust Co. and American Trust Co. Last week these three institutions merged into one, became rival to Amadeo Peter Giannini's many-branched Bank of Italy. Resources of the merged companies will be more than $400,000,000; deposits more than...
...institution would be at all a Drum enterprise. To most Californians, Banker Crocker is perhaps more a symbol than an individual-a symbol of wealth, position, dignity, correctness. He is the only living son of Charles Crocker, who was one of the founders of Southern Pacific railroad. The Crocker First National Bank was created by Charles Crocker with the single sweeping gesture of writing a check for $500,000. Banker Crocker inherited the First National, has many times multiplied the family wealth. At Yale (class of '82) he specialized in boxing, now plays excellent golf and rides daily...