Word: hyphen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself by writing books (The Idle Born, Fame's Pathway), collecting a large number of decorations from foreign governments, and becoming the butt of some of the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth's best jokes. Wayne Chatfield Taylor, his eldest son, who repudiates his father's lucrative hyphen, played on Yale's football team in 1915, held a job in Charles G. Dawes's late bank, for a time was a partner in Chicago's Field, Glore & Co., was appointed an executive assistant to George Peek in the early days...
...Stanley of Morgan Stanley & Co. (there is no comma, no hyphen) was the Morgan utility expert, having been admitted to partnership in 1928 when the firm was exploring the power industry. His father was William Stanley, engineer, inventor (thermos bottles) and founder of what is now General Electric's works in Pittsfield, Mass. Born nearly 50 years ago in Great Barrington, Mass., Son Harold was the eldest in a family of nine, and his brother Clarance is now head of the Mellons' Union Trust Co. in Pittsburgh. After graduation from Yale where he led the intercollegiate championship hockey team...
Early one morning last week the Hyphen II was wheeled out on Le Bourget Field for a takeoff. Pilot Lebrix paused in his preparations to scowl at the sight of another ship, pushed from a nearby hangar. It was the famed Question Mark which Capt. Dieudonne ("Doudou") Coste flew to the U. S. last year. And there was "Doudou" himself, stocky, sleek-haired, grinning. No one would be more pleased to see Lebrix beaten in a race. The two men had been enemies ever since their spectacular co-flight around the world in 1927, at the end of which Lebrix...
...Hyphen 11 got away first into the rising sun. Ten minutes later the Question Mark gave chase, overtook Lebrix & Doret beyond Brussels. Near Dusseldorf a fuel line became clogged and the Question Mark made a forced landing. Lebrix & Doret, whose plane had no radio, pushed on into dirty weather over Russia in the belief that their rival still led them...
...first flight, when the storms had beaten them down to the very treetops. At the end of 20 hr. the end came. It was near Ufa, 700 mi. beyond Moscow. Doret bailed out, landed safely with his 'chute. Lebrix and Mesmin died in the crash of the Hyphen II. Doret was vaguely quoted as saying that the engine had exploded...