Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a suppressed question as to her airworthiness. Last spring, to give her greater lifting power, she had been cut in two and a 45-ft. section inserted at the slice. A friend of Major G. H. Scott said he had made a remark "about a patched or mended shoe never being quite as sound as a new one." Was the new construction absolutely integral with the original? Might there be an uncalculated weakness at the middle? Might a gale buckle...
...moored R-101 at Cardington at misty twilight. With him were other British air notables?Sir William Sefton Brancker, Air Vice-Marshal and Director of Civil Aviation; Wing Commander R. B. B. Colmore, Director of the R-101'S construction; Lieut.-Col. V. C. Richmond, designer; Major G. H. Scott, Commander of the R34 (first dirigible to cross the Atlantic); and 49 other passengers, officers, crew...
...Cincinnati Symphony points with pride to its thriving under the sponsorship of the Institute of Fine Arts (endowment scheme begun three years ago by Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft and her late husband). Minneapolis concerts under Belgian Henri Verbrugghen are to be broadcast over a nationwide hookup. Mrs. Carlyle Scott is this Orchestra's new manager...
...Brig.-General Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Baron Cardington, 55, Secretary of State for the British Air Ministry; Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation for the Air Ministry and its Director of Air Organization and Controller-General of Equipment during the War; Major George Herbert Scott, Commander of the R-34, first dirigible to fly the Atlantic ocean (July 1919); with 44 others in the R-101 disaster over France...
...United States, studying them from all points of view. The purpose of the trip is to procure all available data on American libraries, before the building of a new one for Cambridge University. While here, the visitors will look at Widener and the Baker Memorial libraries. Sir Scott, who is a prominent architect, is especially interested in American libraries from the standpoint of their construction; the group is also studying all mechanics of the buildings, such as the cataloguing and arrangement...