Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Human beings are just not built for flying. But since they insist on flying, they might as well have planes designed to carry them with the least discomfort and danger. So says Harvard's Physiologist Ross Armstrong McFarland. For ten years Dr. McFarland, a stubborn gadfly to the U.S. aviation industry, has scientifically studied the effect of plane design and operation on man, "perhaps the most unstable unit in the entire man-machine relationship." He has also flown a good many miles himself...
Shot-in-the-Root. Des Moines' Ross Daniels Root Feeder Co. has needled its business with a hypodermic needle for plants. Attached to a garden hose, the needle is inserted into the ground near the plant roots. The water dissolves powdered fertilizers in the neck of the needle and feeds them directly to the roots. The price...
Like many another collegian, Charles Ross Greening* had been diverted from his major study (art) at Washington State College to one of his minors (military science). He flew on the Tokyo raid with Doolittle, and was the man who invented the expendable 20? bombsight which Doolittle used instead of the secret (and invaluable) Norden. Afterwards, Greening flew 27 missions over Africa and Italy. After the 27th, in July 1943, he was shot down. He just missed parachuting into the crater of Vesuvius...
...Antonio. He had a particularly gritty rag to chew over with his conscience. On March 19, the SEC had filed suit against him. It charged that York had done business while insolvent, and had used customers' securities without their consent. The same day, Dr. Lloyd Irving Ross, one of San Antonio's top surgeons, had filed suit for $80,279. Dr. Ross was an old friend, a fellow Methodist, a trusting customer and the family doctor...
...police brought the York family's old friend, Dr. Lloyd Irving Ross, up to date, jailed him on a charge of murder...