Word: upson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elections. To succeed President Gurney Elwood Newlin, the Association elected Henry Upson Sims of Birmingham, Ala. John Howard Voorhees of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and William Patterson MacCracken Jr. of Chicago were reflected Treasurer and Secretary...
...Detroit. The world's first all-metal dirigible, built stubbier than a Zeppelin, was successfully tried out for the first time. Built experimentally for the Navy by Aircraft Development Co. (subsidiary of Detroit Aircraft Corp.) after designs of Ralph Hazlett Upson, onetime Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. sausage balloon and blimp designer, the all-metal dirigible has a skin of aleled (duralumin core with surface coating of pure aluminum...
Jean A. Lussier was the third human being to remain alive after accomplishing this courageous and stupid feat. First was Annie Upson Taylor in an oak barrel in 1901. Second was Bobbie Leach in a steel barrel in 1911. Sixteen years ago Jean Lussier had worked in the machine shop where Leach's barrel had been made. That was where he had received his inspiration...
...defense of his title might be impeded by no fault in their husbandry. The fault in their husbandry. The talk that they heard ran sometimes on other young men, besides the perennial headliners, who might give him unexpectedly stern treatment: stocky Fred Lamprecht, perhaps, the intercollegiate champion; or Lauren Upson from the Pacific Coast, another rising collegian; Don Garrick, the Canadian junior, who also boxes, and his countryman, C. Ross Summerville, who bounced Max Marston from the 1924 Canadian Amateur...
Intercollegiates. The East dropped its jaw?and a title it had kept since 1897. At the Montclair, N.J., Golf Club, trouble brewed in the U.S. Intercollegiate Championship when Lauren Upson, University of California ousted defending champion Dexter Cummings, Yale. Trouble effervesced as two sectional college champions?A. Jack Westland, a tidy little golfer from the University of Washington, and squat, blond G. Fred Lamprecht, Tulane?cut their way to the finals. In the title match, Westland clung close to par. Lamprecht would have none of it. He cracked out three consecutive 34-5, the first two of which shaved...