Word: malcolm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles in 1926 Brothers Allan and Malcolm Loughead incorporated as Lockheed Aircraft Co. because people mispronounced their name as "loghead." The Lockheed Vega presently rolled off their line, first of a series of single-motored speedsters which set many a record. In 1933 Lockheed developed the fast, twin-motored, ten-passenger Electra, which immediately became as much the darling of little airlines as the 14-passenger Douglas DC2 simultaneously became of big. When the Electra was launched, Lockheed had 200 employes. Last week the payroll was over 1,400, the plant had just been doubled and all factory hands given...
...Willis Rodney Whitney, General Electric's vice president who invented the radiotherm (high frequency electric device for creating artificial fevers in sick people); Charles Franklin Kettering, General Motors vice president, who designed the hypertherm (air-conditioned hot box in which sick people may develop artificial fever) ; Dr. Walter Malcolm Simpson of Dayton, Ohio, Mr. Kettering's good friend who helped design the hypertherm, and who has written authoritatively on the use of artificial fevers in curing gonorrhea and early syphilis; and Dr. William Bierman of Manhattan, an early fever enthusiast who organized last week's conference...
...some years Malcolm Jameson, one-time chief draftsman in the U. S. Navy, felt that his present occupation of insurance salesman did not give him a full emotional outlet. At loss for a hobby, he purchased a large wooden salad bowl, heated the tip of an icepick red hot and traced on the bowl a map which he tastefully tinted with Mercurochrome. A group of Mr. Jameson's salad bowls, which he prefers to call "Segmaps," were on view in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace last week, priced...
...abdication (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.) Last week the Prime Minister did what he could to evaporate this popular view by submitting to the House of Commons a White Paper intended to "do something" for the Depressed Areas and based in great part on the advice of Sir Malcolm Stewart. It was he whom King Edward summoned just before leaving London on his last slumming tour to South Wales. Mr. Malcolm Stewart, as he then was, had long fought what seemed to him the do -nothing -for -the -Depressed -Areas policy of the Government. Sir Malcolm was knighted...
Following are the complete results: Second Senior Class Elections (March 9-10, 1937.) For Secretary: (1) Robert Crossett Holcombe 102 Charles Wells Hubbard, 3rd 89 George Gordon Hedblom 85 William John Watt 82 George Franklin Mahoney 69 Dunbar Carpenter 55 Robert Edward Purdy 30 For Permanent Class Committee (6) Malcolm Bodwell McTernen, Jr. 302 Charles Colmery Gibson 279 Leavitt Sargent White 267 Rolf Kaltenborn 208 Peter Hobart Knapp 170 Perry James Culver 165 Daniel Erskine Burbank, Jr. 153 James Arnott Elliott Wood 151 Walter Hines Page, 2nd 148 Curtis Prout 146 Francis Gorham Brigham, Jr. 138 William Bernard Berssenbrugge...