Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grant's. President Hayes had the smallest head (7 1/16), President Garfield the largest (74). The Hoover head, unlike Chief Justice Taft's and Alfred Emanuel Smith's,† has no notable bumps or bulges. ¶ President Hoover last week accepted the resignation of Ben F. Wright as auditor of the Philippine Islands, appointed Maj. General Creed ¶ Hammond to succeed him. Also appointed was Robert Ridgeway, Chief Engineer of the New York Board of Transportation, as a U. S. delegate to the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo next October. ¶ A caller at the White House...
While other people were doing such things, Aviators Loren W. Mendell, 30, of Los Angeles and Roland B. Reinhart, 29, of Salem, Ore., listened for 246 hr., 43 min., 32 sec., to the steady roar of an old Wright Whirlwind motor, regulate 1 the controls of an old Buhl air sedan called the Angeleno, and soared, soared, soared over Southern California. When they had been up 175 hours, one hour longer than the last World's record (TIME, July 15), a great crowd gathered at the Culver City airport set up such a hullabaloo that "talkie" directors on nearby lots...
...each from Wright Aeronautical...
...Wright Jr. of Canada, son of the University of Pennsylvania's oldtime rowing coach (who was there to watch him row), lost by three feet the Diamond Sculls, which he won last year, to Holland's L. H. F. Gunther...
...Bendix Aviation is another channel whereby General Motors has recently entered aviation. Bendix Aviation combines Bendix Brake Co., Eclipse Machine Co., Delco Aviation, Stromberg Motor Devices and Scintilla Magneto, and since last week Pioneer Instrument. In forming Bendix Aviation the Curtiss, Wright, United and Aviation Corp. interests worked with General Motors...