Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lawyer-businessman Secretary Hurley has made money. He pulled the wildcatting Gililland Oil Co. out of bankruptcy, sold it to Standard Oil for a $3,500,000 profit. He is part owner of the Hurley-Wright Building (U. S. Railroad Administration) in Washington, of apartment houses in Tulsa...
President Hoover was deeply disturbed by these events. At the request of High Commissioner Russell, he gave terse orders to Secretary of the Navy Adams. Quickly out of Hampton Roads sailed the U. S. S. Wright bearing a detachment of 500 Marines to supplement the force of 700 already in Haiti. From Guantanamo Bay steamed away the cruiser Galveston, bound for Jacmel where an arms smuggling plot was supposed to have been uncovered...
Grover C. Loening, famed engineer and designer of U. S. planes and amphibians, last week announced his resignation from Keystone Aircraft Corp. and Curtiss-Wright Corp...
...Curtiss-Wright Sales Co. gave a flying party last week for air-curious business leaders of the New York area who had never had a ride in an airplane. At Valley Stream, L. I., hummed expectantly the Company's Ford trimotor. In squads it engulfed intrepid New York businessmen -rubbermen, pianomen, bankers, food-men, hatters, bakers, milkmen, silkmen- took them up, showed them over Manhattan, brought them down, five tons landing softly...
...Folk & fairy tales by Veronica Somerville Hutchinson, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Frances Jenkins Olcott...