Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Air Races of 1928 he demonstrated another, built by his students of California Institute of Technology. It performed well but was impractical, was dubbed "the dill pickle" for its color and general conformation. Thereafter he obtained the financial backing of Hannibal C. Ford, president of Ford Instrument Co. Inc., a subsidiary of North American Aviation, Inc., which gave rise to the present development and the formation of Merrill Aircraft Co. Also associated with him are Thomas A. Morgan, president of Sperry Gyroscope Co. (N. A. A. subsidiary), Capt. Thomas Bartwell Doe, president of Eastern Air Transport...
...first of these two concerts, presented by the string section only, will be featured by a solo on the harpsichord, an instrument rarely heard now, by R. L. Kirkpatrick '31, who will play the Bach Concerto in G. minor. M. H. Holmes 3G, violin soloist, will offer the Bach Concerto in E major...
...Andrew William Mellon was already a tycoon to be reckoned with. He was 45, lean and quiet. The Union Trust which he had founded eleven years prior had grown and become a mighty instrument in his skilled hands. He had an iron in many industrial fires already glowing, he had irons in other fires just kindling. Nine years had passed since he had bought into Aluminum Co. of America and the investment began to look promising. He held a lot of bonds in an oil company sponsored by that picturesque Pittsburgher, J. M. Guffey. Six years later those bonds were...
...instrument used will be a commercial one developed for determining the existence of oil deposits, and one more highly specialized, unique in the history of the science, perfected by H. G. Taylor, of Washington. Dr. Leet will conduct a course in the use of these instruments, which will begin the second half year. Under the name of Geology 6, it will deal with the study of seismography and seismic prospecting, a course which has never before been given at Harvard, for lack of the proper instruments...
Died. Edwin Scott Votey, 74, first vice president of Aeolian Co., inventor of the pianola player-piano and the first Aeolian pipe organ, director of many a musical instrument company; in Summit...