Word: geers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William States Lee, chief engineer of Duke Power Co., who first aided James Buchanan Duke in buying up North Carolina power sites; President William N. Reynolds of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), who was lately elected to succeed Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (resigned last year); President Bennette Eugene Geer of Southern Worsted Corp.; Dr. Robert Lee Flowers, secretary-treasurer of the University, and Dr. Watson Smith Rankin, onetime dean of Wake Forest College (N. C.) School of Medicine, director of the hospital and orphanage program. Alternating between Manhattan and North Carolina, the Board meets every month. Last month...
...year ago Dr. William Chauncey Geer, researcher for B. F. Goodrich Co. revealed a means he had devised to prevent the formation of ice on the wings of airplanes (TIME, April 14, 1930). He affixed rubber "overshoes," impregnated with oil, to the leading edges of the wings, and to struts, tail surfaces, flying wires. By means of a motor-driven pump, the overshoes were made to pulsate-to loosen the ice as quickly as it could form. The ice would be blown away. Last week at Akron, the Goodrich company announced that a Lockheed Vega and a Douglas mail plane...
Crown Princess Juliana ultimately followed her rustling mother out of Parliament. Lusty as ever rose the famed Dutch cheer for Royalty: "Orange Boven! Orange Boven!" ("Orange up! Orange up!").- To Parliament next day Finance Minister Dr. D. J. de Geer sheepishly reported that for the first time in seven years the Dutch budget is out of balance, shows a small deficit of $3,615,300. This in part the Government proposes to make up by "increasing the liquor excise" and "economizing." Two days after good Queen Wilhelmina failed to name a fiance, the Swedish press heard that the name...
Last week airmen everywhere, particularly operators of northern mail routes rejoiced at news from Cornell University that Drs. William Chauncey Geer and Merit Scott had perfected for airplane wings "overshoes" which had successfully eluded the grasp of the Ice Ogre...
...Geer, onetime vice president in charge of development of B. F. Goodrich Co. of Akron, retired to realize his early ambition of scientific research...