Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trim two-motored airplane that outwardly looked like any other U. S. aircraft, but inwardly was as different as a hickory basket from a ship's hull. For while the skeleton of other planes is built up of longitudinal braces, bulkheads and stringers, the framework of this Greenwood-Yates Geodetic Bi-Craft is woven of spruce strips. It resembles nothing more than a woven basket covered with fabric to keep out the breeze, powered with two 50-h.p. engines to pull it through the air. Its structure is called geodetic because the Greenwood-Yates ribbing is laid entirely...
...year-old George Yates, who last week not only had sold the first plane (to Portland Restaurateur Paul F. Ryan) but had been informed that from now on he will have more financial backing, can soon produce the Geodetics in quantity. After his partner and test pilot Allen David Greenwood, Oregon Aeronautics Inspector, had landed from the flight over town, jubilant Builder Yates announced that a syndicate of Portland citizens would shortly begin construction of a plane factory...
Geodetic construction is used on no other American plane, but Britain's geodetic Vickers Wellesley bombers are among the finest in the world, hold the longdistance flight record of 7,162 miles. By using spruce, of which Oregon has plenty, instead of metal weaving strips, Greenwood-Yates have cut the cost of frame material for a single airplane to $50, are able to build it lighter than with steel...
...minute interview with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Later both went to Parliament. In the House of Commons Opposition members emphatically wanted to know: 1) what Lord Stanhope's revelations meant; 2) how the Government could justify such a censorship of the press. Deputy Labor Leader Arthur Greenwood pointedly asked Mr. Chamberlain if he thought Lord Stanhope was a "fit person to hold an important office...
Married. Katherine Ursula Towle Parrott Greenwood Wildberg (Ursula Parrott), 36, author of Ex-Wife and ex-wife of three; and Alfred Coster Schermerhorn, 41, socialite literary agent, ex-husband of two; in Manhattan...