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Texas Corp. (Texaco gasoline and oil helped Capt. Hawks & Mechanic Grubb break coast-to-coast flight record): $45,073,879 as against...
...Capt. Frank M. Hawks, a burly pilot who used to carry oil payrolls in Mexico and airmail in the U. S.; and Oscar E. Grubb, bespectacled mechanic...
...Mechanic Grubb, sprawled among empty gasoline tins, had to be lifted out of the plane. He was almost unconscious, gulping for air. Before the take-off he had been fitted and jammed into his compartment, which was filled with extra fuel cans. Throughout the flight, he had had to pump gasoline from the cans into the wing tanks...
Died. Rear Admiral William Hannum Grubb Bullard, 60, suddenly, of heart trouble, at Washington, D. C. Died. Jon Bratiano, 63, powerful Premier and "iron man" of Rumania, four times (1908-10, 1912-18, 1922-26, July-November 1927) Prime Minister, foe of the exiled onetime Crown Prince Carol; in Bucharest; after three operations had been performed upon his throat...
...minutes later they were subdued-in memory of Rear Admiral William Hannum Grubb Bullard, who had died the day before of heart trouble, aged 60. He had been an important U. S. delegate to the conference and spent very much time on several of its 150 committees. Also he had been chairman of the U. S. Radio Commission since it was formed last March to regulate the bedlam of the air. President Coolidge appointed him to that post because Admiral Bullard had kept in touch with every step of wireless communication since it first became practical...