Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half hours. The fare (one way) will be in the neighborhood of $60-50% greater than railroad fare. Each plane will carry twelve passengers, a pilot-navigator and a steward who will serve meals, operate the radio and be emergency pilot. The cost of each plane, equipped with three Wright Whirlwind motors, will be $28,500. The company will be financed by A. R. Martine of the Bankers' Service Co., Manhattan...
...York University Frank Billings Kellogg, Secretary of State William Lyon Phelps, Yale Professor Litt. D. Henry Fairfield Osborn, paleontologist D. Sc. Owen D. Young, lawyer, industrialist D. Commercial Sc. Joseph Deems Taylor, composer D. Music Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Col. Robert Wright Stewart, chairman Standard Oil Co. of Indiana...
...CARTER WRIGHT BURNS...
...Stevens, Miss Eleanor Frothingham; G. W. Estey, Miss Martha Baker; G. Wright, Miss Elizabeth Wright; R. D. McMullan, Miss Margaret Hastings; T. O. Kingsbury, Miss Elizabeth Kingsbury; R. M. Purinton, Miss Emily Stevens...
...Iowa State University. He worked in a jewelry store. He married a pretty girl named Wilda Bogert. He went into aviation through the path traveled by so many young pilots-training in the Army during Wartime, barnstorming, stunt flying. Then he got a backer and a superbly designed Wright-Bellanca monoplane. He shattered the endurance record by remaining in the air (with chunky Bert Acosta) for 51 hours. He was ready to conquer the Atlantic long before Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh came out of the West, but bickerings disturbed his camp...