Word: underwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Akron should some day wrench apart like the Shenandoah, pound to earth like the R-IOI, crash like the Roma or vanish in a sea storm like the Dixmude, two menE. C. McDonald, a construction supervisor and W. B. Underwood, mechanic-were in a position last week to shout to the country: "I told you so!" They had charged that the great dirigible was structurally deficient. The House Naval Affairs Committee was investigating. If any disaster ever befell the Akron, the public, right or wrong, would hark back distrustfully to last week's hearings...
...inquiry, demanded by Navy-heckling Representative James V. McClintic of Oklahoma, was concerned with the fact that the Akron was 19,181 Ib. overweight and 3 m. p. h. underspeed, and with the McDonald-Underwood charges that her frame was loosely riveted and contained defective metal...
When a railroad official gets a chance for a better position on another line, not infrequently he takes a subordinate or so along with him. When Frederick Douglass Underwood left the Soo to become general manager of the B. & O. he took Superintendent Willard along as his assistant. That was in 1899. Two years later Mr. Underwood became president of the Erie, asked Mr. Willard to accompany him. "Uncle Dan" went along as general manager. In 1910 he returned East to become president of the road he had left nine years before...
...shotguns. When this car bogged down, the convicts became frenzied. They confiscated another passing car, commandeered two young women for shields. Warden White protested. They blew his arm almost off, left him for dead. Then they split up into two groups. One group- Charles Berta, Stanley Brown, Tom Underwood-ran into the woods where they were soon captured...
...Underwood Elliott Fisher...