Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aluminum Co. of America prefers to refine metallic aluminum and sells its product as sheets, tubing, wire and rods for manufacturers to machine. Persuading artificers to adopt aluminum has always been difficult. So the company has been obliged to pioneer, to prove to others that aluminum things are saleable...
Countess Hella Brandenstein, daughter of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Germany's most distinguished pioneer in aeronautics, tipped a gilded bottle, allowed a stream of liquid air to cascade over the bow of Germany's new giant dirigible; 763 feet long, 102 feet wide, the 117th dirigible built at Friedrichshafen, and the first to be honored with a christening party. Two strips of canvas fell from the hull, revealed the name "Graf Zeppelin." Countess Hella shrilled: "Mit Glueck, Graf Zeppelin...
Louis W. Hill Jr., grandson of railroad pioneer, James J. Hill, and nephew of Queen Marie's entertainer, Sam Hill, was promoted to trainmaster of the Butte division of his father's Great Northern Railroad...
Died. Morris M. Titterington, 35, and lady friend, in a plane smash; at Pottsville, Pa. He founded the Pioneer Instrument Co., invented the earth inductor compass, said to have made long airplane flights possible...
...Cora Bennett, unable to live on her pension as widow of famed Air Pilot Floyd Bennett, peddles life insurance policies in Brooklyn. Last week, she sold her first policy. The purchaser: Charles H. Colvin, of the Pioneer Instrument Co., manufacturers of instruments used by Aviator Bennett flying to the North Pole...