Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chapman Andrews Robert Abram Bartlett Frederick R. Burnham Richard E. Byrd George K. Cherrie James L. Clark Merian C. Cooper Lincoln Ellsworth Louis Agassiz Fuertes † George Bird Grinnell Charles A. Lindbergh Donald Baxter MacMillan Clifford H. Pope George Palmer Putnam Kermit Roosevelt Carl Rungius Stewart Edward White Orville Wright...
...Among them were: Ferenc Molnar (play-wright), Dario Rappaport (Manhattan portraitist), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (play wright), Richard Strauss (composer), Ruth Draper (monologist), Ina Claire (actress), Mr. Walter Rosen, James Speyer (U. S. financiers...
Officials of Dayton accompanied Colonel Lindbergh while he visited the National Military Home to shake hands with veterans, while he placed a wreath on the grave of Wilbur Wright, while he attended a dinner given in his honor at which Mayor Allen C. McDonald presided. At this dinner, Mayor McDonald presented the aviator with a scroll, signed by himself, saying, "From the Citizens of Dayton ... on the occasion of his official visit ... as an evidence of their appreciation...
Five weeks ago (TIME, July 11) Charles Augustus Lindbergh wished to pay an informal call on Daytonian Orville Wright, pioneer aviator. This wish he satisfied by driving a motor car through back streets of Dayton, by visiting with Orville Wright, by driving away through back streets of Dayton...
...Only two engines failed, one of which was ten years old. ¶There were 16 Wright Whirlwind engines, on 12 ships. Of these, only two developed serious trouble in the 65,744 engine-miles flown...