Word: willey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just 27 minutes earlier, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s Pilot Sidney Willey took off from Burbank in foggy weather, with instructions to deliver the brand-new 14 to Northwest Airlines at Las Vegas, Nev.- that Northwest might avoid paying California's 3% sales tax. The nine who died were not paying passengers but two Lockheed employes, two Northwest officials and one employe, two wives, two children. Principal post-mortem question mark was why Pilot Willey flew so low. Best guess: For some reason he decided to short-cut straight across the mountains and "fly contact''-in sight...
...Lancaster, of the University of Nebraska, Walter R. Miles, of Yale University, Frederick C. Mills, of Columbia University, Roy F. Nichols, of the University of Pennsylvania, Robert Redfield, of the University of Chicago, Walter R. Sharp, of the University of Wisconsin, Blair Stewart, of Reed College, and Malcolm M. Willey, of the University of Minnesota...
Although he has made some very fast times this year, Graham Cummin will be up against two very good back-strokers in Dan Zehr, Northwestern star and Big Ten champion in the event, and Willis Willey, Princeton junior who defeated Cummin and broke the intercollegiate backstroke mark in the Princeton meet this year...
...biggest commodity houses on the venerable Baltic Exchange. Then shellac threatened the City (financial district), until the distressed shellac manipulators were rescued behind locked doors. There was a sharp break in Australian gold shares, a break in tin. Last week the century-old Bradford house of Francis Willey & Co., world's largest wool dealers, was in trouble. It was apparent that British recovery was slowing, and finally there was the current political excitement...
...Portland, Ore., during a strike, a woman picket marched up & down in front of Mrs. Myrtle Michos' restaurant. Mrs. Michos sent for Willis R. Willey, 48, a huge, hairy farmer of Spokane, Wash., who is famed in the Northwest for his consistent refusal to wear anything but a sun visor and shorts. Last week a mixed jury found Farmer Willey guilty of disorderly conduct. His offense: Walking up & down beside the woman picket to embarrass...