Word: lands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quantico Marines Land in Force...
...another nearby; sport planes, slightly bigger; coupes, sedans, coaches and cabins (all the foregoing may be flown comfortably by the owner pilot); limited commercial planes, which carry usually six passengers (these also come equipped with office furniture for the business executive, his secretary, his pilot); the great transports. Land planes, of course, were most numerous at Detroit. But notable is the number of amphibians, seaplanes and air yachts now on the market-Sikorsky, Fairchild, Keystone, Leoning, Boeing, Aeromarine, Klemm, American Marchetti, Chance Vought, Ireland, Eastman, Fokker, Great Lakes, Hamilton, Paramount, Columbia...
...income of perhaps $1,000,000 a year, four homes, a fleet of cars, a 15-passenger airplane, a wife and a ten-year-old son. But his is a lonely hobby; Gar Wood is as unbeatable on the water as the Etonian Segrave is on land. He longs for competition...
Rugby. International Rugby Championship (Great Britain-Ireland-France)? Won by Scotland in final match with Eng-land, at Edinburgh...
...program is Ralph Clinton Holmes, President of Texas Corp. (Texaco products). A potent and rapidly growing "independent" (i.e., not a fragment of the dismembered Standard), Texas Corp. in 1928 sold 26,744,806 barrels of gasoline. an increase of 36.5% over 1927 and during 1928 increased its land holdings from 2,728,000 acres to 5,475,000 acres. President Holmes went from school room to oil company (Standard of New York, 1895), has been identified chiefly with the refining end of the oil industry, is co-inventor of the Holmes-Manley process for "cracking" gasoline...