Word: gano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Howard Hughes's mother, Allene Gano, was born, the family was established in the top drawer of Texas aristocracy...
Howard's father, Howard Robard Hughes Sr., was not exactly a nobody, although he came from a place the Ganos had never heard of-Keokuk, Iowa. Son of a Harvard-bred lawyer, he was expelled from several schools, but got through Harvard and hung out his shingle in Joplin, Mo. The lure of oil drew him to Texas. He made a small stake, bought a long Peerless car, met Allene Gano, married...
...Seth T. Gano...
Annual Commencement exercises of the Harvard Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa will be held in Fogg Art Museum on June 28 at 11 o'clock. The orator will be Wilbur K. Jordan, President of Radcliffe; the poet, Winfield Scott. Seth T. Gano '07, President of the Harvard Chapter, will preside...
...capacity now idle is almost the total capacity of Japan, is double that of Italy, almost one-third as big as Russia's or the British Empire's. The 91,100,000 total U.S. capacity dwarfs to insignificance the 2,000,000 tons allowed by the Gano Dunn report for ammunition (since doubtless considerably increased), the 4,700,000 needed for the canning industry, the 5,000,000 tons asked by the railroads, the 125,000 tons needed for the new Texas-to-Illinois oil pipeline...