Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miles. "It must make an old 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...
...Buicks (14 body types) were from two to three inches longer in wheelbase, varying from 118 to 132 inches. Horsepowers were increased from 74 to 81. from 90½ to 99. Restyling has centered upon elimination of the radiator and body "bulge" in the old models...
Chrysler Corp. (Four years old in June; third largest in autos. In June, E. F. Hutton and Waddill Catchings joined the directorate. Plymouth and De Soto cars account for 40% of corporation's sales. First half sales approximately $228,000,000.) Net income, first half...
...meeting because I was interested. I would not have believed it possible that this could have happened in Philadelphia, the cradle of liberty. My ancestors came to America over 200 years ago in the cause of freedom and I thought surely we had it in this good old Quaker City...
...with James C. Cooley, oldtimer, at No. 2 and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney at No. 3. The Midwests-with W. Seymour ("Shorty") Knox of Buffalo at No. 1, Barney Balding and William Blair of Chicago in the middle, Nelson Talbott of the poloing Dayton, Ohio, Talbotts at Back. The Old Aikens-the college team, three parts Yale, one part Harvard. They have played together for years. Their first teacher was Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., mother and coach of Internationalist Hitchcock. Her younger son, Frank Hitchcock used to be in its lineup but was replaced four years ago by D. Stewart...