Word: howland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present high scoring members of the team include Howland B. Stoddard '36, Richard H. Dennis '36, Clyde L. A. Sears '36, John C. Penrod '36, and Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt '37. Other members of the group are Russell S. Clymer '36, Malcolm S. M. Watts, Jr. '37, Howard A. Cook '37, Fairfield Day '36, Eoin M. Nyhen '36, Robert E. Paige '37, and Charles F. Samson...
After sundown one day last week an airplane slipped in to a landing at "Round Hill," the South Dartmouth, Mass, estate of Hetty Green's stamp-collecting, air-minded son, Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green. It taxied up close to a capacious airship dock, and out of it stepped President Karl Taylor Compton and Vice President Vannevar Bush of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...meteoric financier, bought a 29% interest in it during the gay 1920's, sold his interest to Inter-Southern Insurance Co. When the Caldwell bubble burst, the Missouri State stock passed to Kentucky Home Life, last year was bought back by Herbert Hoover's friend Julius Howland Barnes, chairman of Insuran-shares Corp. Then it transpired that Missouri Life itself had guaranteed a loan of $800,000 to make the purchase possible...
Largest item of the program is a $1,000,000 seaplane airbase on Miami's shore. Last week Fred Howland, Inc. of Miami was awarded the master contract for the terminal building. The base will provide for the simultaneous arrival of four of Pan American's huge "Clipper" flying boats, the handling of 500 to 600 passengers. It will provide customs and immigration offices, be rated a U. S. port of entry. Clearance is allowed on the marine runways and loading docks for wing spans of more than 200 ft.; a mile-long deep water channel has been...
...Round Hill, South Dartmouth, Mass., in a dirigible hangar which Col. Edward Howland Robinson (Hetty's son) Green loaned, three of President Karl Taylor Compton's M. I. T. men have built an electrostatic high voltage generator to compete with lightning's violence. Last week in Chicago President Compton announced that shortly the machine would be ready to operate. In preliminary workouts it produced six million volts, would have produced ten million had not the difference diffused into the metal walls of Col. Green's hangar. Workmen now are insulating those walls, and Robert...