Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week while his Tel. & Tel. and General Electric were in the midst of a 23 and a 25 point rise, unique Director Baker did something which surprised his conservative stockholders, about half of whom are women. The board, including Thomas Cochran of J. P. Morgan, Francis Lee Higginson and the chairman, famed Owen D. Young, was scheduled to meet in Manhattan at 11 a. m. Promptly on the hour they trooped aboard Director Baker's Viking, 272-foot seagoing yacht. While General Electric motors propelled the Viking down Long Island Sound they transacted business, pocketed the gold pieces...
...with her whistle tied down and the pilot squirting a steady stream of tobacco juice on the floor of the "Texas" (pilot house), the cotton packet Robert E. Lee chuffed up the 1,154 mi!es of tortuous Mississippi river from New Orleans to St. Louis in 90 hr. 14 min. Behind her, beaten, labored the packet Natchez, burning up "doors, furniture, hundreds of hams and slabs of side meat." The Robert E. Lee's record stood until last week when three exhausted, red-eyed men tottered ashore at St. Louis from the 150 h. p. speed launch Bogie...
...cowman mad to see a fellow in shiny boots and polo pants riding a slick horse. Well, it hurts in a way to see these mail pilots climbing up into heated cabins or cockpits and talking to somebody on the ground over the radiophone." Thus re-pined E. Hamilton Lee, 37, who flew the first experimental air mail routes for the Government eleven years ago. Planes were relatively primitive then, routes unmarked, every trip a life's risk. Reason for Senior Pilot Lee's last week's thought: retrospection. He had just completed 1,000,000 miles of flying...
Born. To John Drinkwater, playwright (Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Bird in Hand) and Mrs. Drinkwater; a daughter...
BIRD IN HAND-Playwright John Drinkwater forgets Lincoln and Lee to write picturesque comedy in an English inn (TIME, April...