Word: orman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong southeast wind, 16 swollen gas bags floated up from Basle, Switzerland, one day last week. It was the 21st James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. Favorite teams were led by Belgium's Ernest de Muyter, four-time winner of Bennett races, and Ward Tunte Van Orman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber aeronautical engineers, also a fourtime winner. But last to come to earth was the U. S. Navy's entry, piloted by Lieuts. Thomas G. W. Settle and Wilfred Bushnell, winners of last year's U. S. meet. After 40 hr. in the air they were forced down...
...Ward Tunte Van Orman, winner of the 1930 International, is ex-officio leader of this year's team. Licuts. Thomas G. W. Settle & Wilfred Bushnell, winners of last year's National, are the second crew...
...Ward Tunte Van Orman, 1930 International winner, is automatically a member of the 1931 team...
...Manhattan, Allen Orman, 23, held up with a toy pistol Frances Tauber, 21, hosiery salesgirl, robbed the shop of $30. In binding her to a chair he tore her stocking. Soon after she received a dozen roses, six handkerchiefs, an amorous telegram signed ISLE OF VIEW and a pair of silk stockings. Then Allen Orman telephoned her, asked for a tryst. Frances Tauber agreed, took with her two detectives, sent amorous Allen Orman to jail...
Near Norwich, N. Y., the Goodyear VIII, with the veteran Ward Tunte Van Orman and Alan MacCracken, was hurled down 8,000 ft. by a vertical current. The basket hit the earth, bounced up again, sailed on. Near Canton, Mass., the pilots deliberately landed, they said, to avoid being blown to sea. With a distance mark of 550 mi. they were (unofficially) winners of the fifth consecutive U. S. victory...