Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Military airmen are watching the experiments closely. Jet engines (necessary for the new high speeds) have cut the range of bombers. The strategic bombing missions of World War III may have to use flying tankers, rising from forward bases and meeting the bombers part way to their faraway targets...
...Widow King's five children, Lee King (no descendants), Richard King Jr., Mrs. Alice King Kleberg, Mrs. Ella King Welton, and Mrs. Nettie King Atwood are all now dead. The property went to the Klebergs, to Richard King III, who got 150,000 acres, to the Atwoods, who got 131,000 (now being operated by the trustees of the estate), and to the Welton heir, who sold out to Bob Kleberg. Richard King III now operates his ranch independently of the King Ranch Corp...
Under the shadow of skepticism, the HYRC has not ceased to set up further targets. The next step: a Radcliffe branch, under the temporary direction of Arthur W. Bingham, III '51, assistant publicity director...
John D. Rockefeller made his pile in oil, Andrew Carnegie in steel, but William A. Clarke, III, '51, has started his race in the traditional American derby for greenbacks with a prospering business of merchandising milk and doughnuts to esurient Yardlings...
Chester M. Pierce, Gordon P. Reed, Walter E. Robb III, Oliver W. Roosevelt, Jr., Thorvald S. Ross, Jr., Charles H. Sammond, Jr., E.W. Dan Stevens...