Word: kinney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose silks they wore. Bookmakers found their early favorite in extremely horsey Mrs. "Jock" Whitney, although to make it more of a race she had refrained from entering one of her swiftest mounts. Then it was revealed that beauteous Mrs. "Sonny" Whitney would ride Halcyon, and Mrs. Rigan Mc-Kinney "Pete" Bostwick's Pompeius - both stake-winners. Mrs. "Jock" Whitney was astonished and so were the bookies, who promptly set her down as a 5-to-1 shot, made Pompeius and Halcyon favorites. The start of the race decided its finish. Away at the barrier shot a bay gelding...
...swirling snowstorm Pilot James L. Kinney of the Commerce Department flew a Curtiss Fledgling several miles from the field, pulled a hood over his cockpit, then headed back. As would any airline pilot, he followed the radio beacon toward the airport by watching a needle on a dial and by listening to the blend of dots & dashes in his earphones. Buzzing louder& louder as he neared the field, the dots & dashes suddenly stopped. That, the pilot knew, marked the "blind spot" directly over the beacon itself, hard by the airport...
...Pilot Kinney swung his plane into a wide counterclockwise turn, simultaneously switched his radio to a different frequency. Presently his earphones and instrument dial picked up beacon signals again. These came from the runway beacon, which is simply a miniature of the big airway beacon. They told him he was headed straight for the length of the run-way.* Here the ingenious ''landing beam" began to work. Crossing the vertical needle on the beacon dial is a horizontal needle which swings up & down. If the plane is too high for its proper glide the needle swings...
Died. Rosemary McAuliffe Wallen, 19, youngest daughter of Eugene McAuliffe, president of Union Pacific Coal Co., assistant to Union Pacific Railroad's President Carl Raymond Gray; and Bernard Kinney, 21, son of Editor Vincent Kinney of Omaha's labor newspaper Unionist; by asphyxiation (carbon monoxide gas) in an automobile on the grounds of Omaha's Field Club...
Tall, lanky Henry Walsworth Kinney, public relations director for Japan's South Manchuria Railway, who boasts proudly of his Japanese artist-wife and her step-motherly care of his part Hawaiian son, walked into Harbin last week dressed in a potato sack and part of a tent. Other U. S. travelers were not so lucky. Nude, blue with cold, suffering from exhaustion they staggered into town to tell about four brigand-staged trainwrecks. Most graphic description came from young Henry Hilgard Villard, son of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the Nation, on his way across Russia to study...