Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince, buyer and seller of railroads, with his 70-room Prides Crossing, Mass., home, is amply rich for the French ambassadorship. He already spends eight months of each year at his homes in Paris and Pau. His son, Norman, was one of the founders of France's Lafayette Escadrille...
...Richfield Oil's President James A. Talbot, Clifford Durant, son of Motor-Financier William Crapo Durant, Norman Church, Joseph Schenck, the Agua Caliente Hotel in Mexico just south of the California boundary, Shell Petroleum, each have similar de luxe Fokkers. Fokker is building five $100,000, 32-passenger, four-motor transports for the Universal Air Lines system. Those will be the largest, most expensive standard ships ever built in the U. S. The Keystone Patrician, too huge to fit into Detroit's Convention Hall, after making a 25,000-mile circuit of the country without a difficulty, costs...
...expect you'll be starting up the Bisley matches again, now the War's over," said the son of an N. R. A. official shortly after the Armistice. "Yes, of course," replied the father, ''but we can't expect many good scores. There hasn't been any really serious shooting since the War began...
Gifford Pinchot, onetime Governor of Pennsylvania, sailed last week from Brooklyn in his schooner, the Mary Pinchot, bound for the Caribbean, Galapagos, Tahiti. With him were his wife and son, Gifford Jr. An hour after he sailed he had to return. Reasons: ammonia fumes were escaping from a pipe in the refrigerating system, the telegraph system between the captain's cabin and the engine room was out of order. Three days later he sailed again. No mishaps interfered...
...other great thing was the $300,000 building promised by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice of Manhattan, as a memorial to her son Alumnus Harry Elkins Widener. The building has already been nicknamed "Hobby Hall," It will contain lathes, printing presses, cinema machines, dark rooms, telescopes, microscopes, stuffed birds, model engines, yards of linoleum for linoleum blocks, modelling clay, paints. Here students may feed, groom, ride their hobbies, also take courses in natural sciences...