Word: orvill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notch aerial photographer, Colonel Stevens took the first photograph showing laterally the earth's curvature (1930) and the first pictures showing the moon's shadow on the earth during a total eclipse (1932), went to 72,395 feet in a balloon on Nov. 11, 1935 (with Captain Orvil Anderson) to set a substratosphere record...
...feet. It was broken again in 1935 by Orvil Anderson and Albert W. Stevens, U.S. Army Air Corps, who went to 72,395 feet in a sealed, spherical gondola like Piccard...
...warmth of the Japanese reception was too much for four-year-old Mickey Driver. He stiffened with fright when one of the kimonoed women picked him up, recovered when his father, Commander Orvil Driver, told him to "Shake hands with the nice Japanese lady...
...mediums") plus a considerable number of others in repair depots and reserve pools, and 1,200 fighters. Asked just what he expected to do in the Pacific, he answered, "I wish I knew." But it would be surprising if Bomber Doolittle and his crack operations officer, Major General Orvil Anderson, did not have plenty to do there...
Engaged. Marian Sulzberger, 22, daughter of New York Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger; and Orvil E. Dreyfoos, 28, Manhattan stockbroker; in Manhattan...