Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said he would get there from Edmonton, Alberta, 2,000 mi. away, "about midnight," but the field manager had not yet snapped on the field floodlights when Harold Gatty, who flew the world with Post two years ago, heard a faint drone from the Northwest. Another minute and Post's manager, standing near pretty little Mrs. Post in her car. shouted: "It has no lights! It must be Wiley!" and the hazy white form of a ship roared about the field, turning to land...
...radio bearing from the Jellinge and tries his hand at drilling through a fog wall into port-such exciting ventures will be the climax of an infinitely painstaking job which Pan American inherited a year ago. At that time the company hired an adventurous young British scientist named Harold George Watkins who previously had headed the British Arctic Air Route Expedition in Greenland for a purpose similar to Pan American's. Explorer Watkins took charge of a Pan American East Greenland Expedition with a base camp about 80 mi. north of Angmagsalik. Meanwhile the University of Michigan Pan American...
Graft? The Department of the Interior has never quite lived down the bad name Albert Bacon Fall gave it as a result of the oil scandals a decade ago. When honest Harold Ickes took office, he promised the country he would not be "the black sheep" of the Cabinet. Yet, like everyone else, he knows perfectly well that three billion Federal dollars cannot be poured out of the Treasury without some of it spilling over improperly. Day & night he reiterates his determination to keep graft out of his Public Works Administration. He can trust himself and his immediate aides...
...Post begged. "O. K.," replied her stocky, swart, one-eyed husband, Wiley. A few minutes later Pilot Post climbed into his big white-&-purple Lockheed monoplane Winnie Mae and roared away from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., on his second flight around the world. Two years ago with Navigator Harold Gatty, he made an 8½-day record which he now proposed to beat by a generous margin. He was flying alone this time, but with a Sperry automatic pilot and a directional radio. Through fog, heavy clouds and snow, Pilot Post, robot & radio cut a superbly accurate course...
...Laemmle Sr. last week revealed a few of his immediate plans: a cinema biography of the late Flo Ziegfeld, written by his widow Billie Burke; a dramatization of Only Yesterday to make all but youngsters recall the Nineteen Twenties;-'Charles G. Norris' lusty Zest; a story by Harold Bell Wright called Ma Cinderella, and Vicki Baum's I Give My Love...