Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senior Class team: E. H. Steiner '29, l.e.; Robert Reinhart '29, l.t.; Elliot Marple '30, l.g.; H. B. Manger '29, c.; J. F. Poland '29, r.g.; W. S. Tower, Jr., '29, r.t.; Ambrose Cray '29, r.e.; Stewart Boal '29, q.b.; A. G. Whitney '29, l.h.b.; R. F. Mahady '29, r.h.b.; D. T. Fuller...
Sophomore Class team: L. H. Lifchitz '31, l.e.; W. T. Whitney '31, l.t.; E. S. Amazeen '31, l.g.; E. T. Brinkley '31, c.; J. F. Clapp, Jr. '31, r.g.; A. P. Brayton '31, r.t.; Robert Dutton '31, r.e; H. F. A. Beyer '31, q.b.; A. B. Serino '31, l.h.b.; Waldron Post '31, r.h.b.; R. L. Leonard...
...machine for picking the seeds out of cotton, first invented by Eli Whitney at Savannah, Ga., in 1793, said to have been the largest single factor in the South's success...
...Moths, Thunderbirds, Lockheeds, Fairchilds, Stinsons, Challengers, Bellancas and a dozen other makes of planes set out last week from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, to fly to Los Angeles in the greatest transcontinental air derby ever staged. The power was furnished by Wright Whirlwind, Curtiss O X5, Warner Scarab, Pratt & Whitney, Wasp and many another motor. The pilots were stimulated by prizes totalling $57,500. In three classes, 62 planes hopped off. Stops for the night were made at Columbus, Ohio, Kansas City, Mo., Fort Worth, Tex., El Paso, Tex., Yuma, Ariz...
...planes are Ford all-metal monoplanes, with enclosed cabins seating 12 passengers, plus hand baggage; equipped with three Pratt-Whitney Wasp motors, top speed of 140 m.p.h., cruising speed of 115 m.p.h. The pilots are veterans of the airmail. Safety, comfort, speed are the T. A. T. keynotes...