Word: wheelwrights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thunder Afloat (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a glorification of the "ash can fleet"-the homely little sub chasers whose depth bombs helped break the back of the German submarine campaign in 1918. Written by M.G.M. publicity man Ralph Wheelwright, who served on a sub chaser in World War I, with the collaboration of retired Navy Commander Harvey S. Haislip, produced with the approval and assistance of the Navy Department, which placed the remnant of the Navy's 500 World War chasers at the studio's disposal, Thunder Afloat is an able and reasonably authentic document. As entertainment...
...Francisco was a jerry-built village with two hotels, two half-finished wharves, 800 inhabitants. That year James W. Marshall, a wheelwright, discovered gold in the tailrace of James Augustus Suiter's sawmill at Coloma. Twenty-one years later San Francisco had shot up to a polyglot giant of 149,473 inhabitants, a challenger of New York's financial might, a cultural threat to Boston. That year San Francisco went on a three-day spree. Officially it celebrated completion of the transcontinental railroad-"Uncle Sam's Waistband-He would burst without it." Historically it celebrated...
Philadelphia's Derhams are three, all sons of the late Joseph J. Derham, a wheelwright and carriage maker who came from Ireland and set himself up on Philadelphia's swank Main Line in 1887 to build victorias, broughams, phaetons and surreys for the Drexels, Pauls and Cassatts. Before long the automobile began to cut into the carriage maker's business. After a haughty but futile effort to ignore the new invention, Joseph J. Derham gave in and adjusted his trade to the times...
...movies were presented by George W. Wheelwright '24, representative of the Polaroid Corporation which is developing light control by polarization, for commercial purposes...
According to Wheelwright, polarization for practical uses is still in the experimental stage. Its principle is to limit the vibrations of light waves to one direction by means of a newly developed acetate composition in which are embedded crystals of microscopic size to act as "optical slots." These "slots" serve to polarize the light...