Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Wright Brothers were experimenting with their flying contraption at College Park, Md., 25 years ago, they were pestered by a young Army corporal named William C. Ocker who wanted to take lessons. When they made their first successful test flight for the Army at Ft. Meyer, Va., Bill Ocker was there as an armed guard. From a greasemonkey and bamboo polisher at Curtiss Flying School, Corporal Ocker rose to be a pilot, then an inventor. Flying upside down in the clouds made him dizzy so he helped devise an instrument to prevent vertigo. When flying by instruments alone...
...operation must be a Scotch-Presbyterian-Republican who could rise to power and a $20,000-a-year job in a school system ridden by Irish- Catholic-Democratic politics. Nobody is fooled by the independent location of the Board of Education's dingy old headquarters on Park Avenue at 59th Street some three miles north of City Hall. Brought to New York at the age of four, Harold George Campbell climbed the public school ladder rung by rung: pupil, grade-school teacher, high-school teacher, principal, associate superintendent. He has long been a close personal friend and ally...
...none. "The Sharon" became a dilapidated catch-all for antiques, including a communion service presented by George Washington. Two groups of self-appointed trustees fought over pos session of the old shrine, took their squabble into court. The State of Pennsylvania, which plans some day to make a park of Ephrata, argued for ousting the trustees on the ground that assets have been mismanaged and the Ephrata charter (1814) had been violated by the suspension of religious services. Last week a county court approved the ouster, put "The Sharon" into the hands of a receiver whom the local citizenry heartily...
...dipsomaniac novelist (Millard Mitchell) on his way to Sweden for a prize; an unhappy young doctor (Glenn Anders) with a cancer cure, a neurotic wife (Lora Baxter) and a movie star mistress (Claudia Morgan); a Catholic Bishop headed for Rome with an atheist crony; a Broadway columnist with a Park Avenue vocabulary and an infatuated wife (Frieda Inescort). Also aboard .the Atlantia is its rapacious owner who compels his captain to break the transatlantic record although they both know the vessel has dilapidated plates. This leads to an exciting last act in which the troubles of the Atlantia...
...with Henry. Business: Henry: an unsuccessful inventor at 40, owner and operator of the largest automobile business in the U. S. at 60. William: opened "William Ford Tractor Sales" when Henry began manufacturing tractors, prospered selling tractors and farm implements, ten years ago moved to larger quarters in Highland Park, employed 40 men. Present Economic Status: Henry: not worth so much as he once was, but still worth so many hundred millions that a regiment of unemployed accountants would find work figuring out how many. William : a petitioner in bankruptcy ; the liabilities of his company $412,900; its assets, none...