Word: pontes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most famed soaring pilot in the U. S. is 26-year-old Richard Chichester du Pont, son of vice president Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. His enthusiasm has been so infectious that his wife is now an expert pilot and his father has posted a $3,000 prize for the first flight from Elmira to within 25 miles of Times Square, another of $500 for the pilot at the meet who flies highest. Two years ago Pilot du Pont missed the $3,000 prize by five miles. Last week, in his new German...
...Pilot Emerson Mehlhose of Wyandotte, Mich., won the $500 Du Pont prize, with an altitude of 6,516 ft., beating the U. S. record set by Richard du Pont in 1934. Pilot Don Stevens had himself towed up to 18,000 ft. by a plane, looped 93 times on the way down, a U. S. record. When the meet was over, gliders and sail planes had soared a total of 321 hours. 1,178 miles in 274 flights. U. S. champion was Chester Decker (295 points). Second with 288 was Richard du Pont, last year's champion...
...Board, and last year Secretary Master was able proudly to announce that with assets of $40,000,000 it had not lost a cent since 1928 (TIME, Oct. 21). Also proudly, Dr. Master announced last month that the Board has divested itself of 200 shares of du Pont stock because "2% of their stock is in powder...
...Pont de Nemours authorized a flat 10% increase for white-collar em-ployes, effective June...
Biggest attraction of the Drake Relays, as usual, was Queen of the Relays. This year she was 20-year-old, blue-eyed Jane Mareton Phelps, daughter of Vice President Zack Phelps of Krebs Pigment Co., an E. I. du Pont de Nemours subsidiary. Queen Phelps is a junior at Northwestern, where she studies music, collects old bottles, broods over her two greatest ambitions : a big wedding, a big family...