Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From 1930 to 1933 United Aircraft & Transport Corp.'s business in Germany totaled $59,000. In 1933 it jumped to $272,000, and in the first eight months of 1934 to $1,445,000. Biggest German purchases: unmounted Pratt & Whitney engines. The Senate committee promptly concluded that United was helping Germany rearm in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. But "it was not the understanding" of United officials that their German sales were for military purposes...
Cole announced at the same time that in accordance with the by-laws of the Society the following nominations for stockholders and officers and other directors were made: for stockholders until 1939, E. P. Kohler and Erwin H. Schell; for stockholder until 1935, Edward A. Whitney '17, associate professor of history; for officers for one year, Henry S. Thompson '99, president; Austin W. Scott, vice-president; Waiter Humphreys, clerk; John L. Taylor, treasurer...
...between auto-racing abroad and in the U. S. In Europe, it is a fashionable sport. One of the three drivers killed at the Monza Autodrome last year was Count Czaikowski of Poland, whose car overturned and burned when it skidded in the middle of the track. Same day Whitney Straight, cousin of Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, narrowly missed death when his car skidded on an oil spot. Only U. S. driver entered at Monza last week, Whitney Straight finished ninth, in a Maserati...
Entered in the Women's Championship was Mrs. Lyman Whitney of Boston, only living U. S. woman who has killed a deer with bow & arrow. She and the defending champion, Madeleine Taylor of New York, were defeated by a good-looking young woman from St. Louis named Mrs. G. De Sales Mudd. Mrs. Mudd had enough points (1,771) to win before her rivals began their last round. Slim, tall, with reddish hair and a hungry-looking Nordic face, Russell Hoogerhyde has been the foremost U. S. bowman since 1930. A onetime lifeguard at Michigan beaches, he came...
After the Travers, Saratoga race-goers will have two more weeks in which to enjoy the contest for riding honors between two crack jockeys, 19-year-old Coucci, contract rider for Mrs. Payne Whitney, and Meade who rides for Colonel Bradley. Feature stake races for 2-year-olds in the last two weeks of the meet will be the Sanford, the Grand Union Hotel and the Hopeful. In these are entered Boxthorn and Balladier who have this year helped to make Colonel Bradley the leading owner at the track. They will run against Mrs. Payne Whitney's Plat...