Word: wilmington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilmington, Mass., one Joseph Wharton, 79, paused to pick up a nickel dropped by a stranger in a bank, had his life savings ($950) whisked from his hip pocket while he bent over...
...surprise was his model's success to Mr. Armstrong, swarthy engineer, who since he left the Navy has been consulting engineer for the E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. at Wilmington. For 16 years he has been experimenting and designing such a sea base having in mind ocean way stations for ships and, more lately for transoceanic aircraft. He "sold" his idea to the eminently practical duPont and General Motors financiers. They have provided him one and three quarters million dollars to build his first seadrome. Construction has already started on it. It will be called the Langley after...
...Wilmington, Del., one Thomas Gerstenberg, club footballer, was hurt in a game, took time out. resumed playing. Three days later he discovered he had broken his neck...
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors Corp., watched his new million-dollar yacht, Rene, slide into the water at Wilmington, Del. Rene is the diminutive of Mrs. Sloan's name (Irene...
Attempted Theft. The Roma is the huge Bellanca sesquiplane which C. Sabelli was to fly to Rome last year. But her size and fame were no deterrents to six presumed thieves who last week audaciously attempted to take her from her hangar at Wilmington, Del. Bellanca guards forewarned by telephone frustrated the attempt and pleased George Haldeman, co-pilot of Ruth Elder's trans-Atlantic flight, now Bellanca's chief test pilot, who privately plans to fly the Roma whither publicity abounds...