Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bills legislating it had been presented in Congress meanwhile. A bill drawn by Representative Wright Patman of Texas went into the House Ways & Means Committee, gathered dust there. Under the rules, no method of getting it out was possible except: 1) to have the committee formally report it out, or 2) to have the 218 Representatives sign a petition forcing it to the House floor. Mr. Patman circulated such a petition, failed by some 75 signatures to obtain his end. Many a Congressman who disapproved of the bill, afraid of the veterans' vote if he had to oppose...
Junior. Most recent and notable entrant into the light-plane field is Curtiss-Wright Corp.** Last week it announced its new Junior, a two-place high-wing monoplane for $1,490. Some features: Szekely 3-cylinder motor of 40 h. p.; top speed 80 m. p. h., cruising 70, landing 28 Fuel consumption: about one gallon to 25 mi.; cruising radius 200 mi. The plane is tiny, looks like a winged canoe built close to the ground, but is sturdily braced against the novice's "pancake" landings. It is of the "pusher" type (a rarity in modern landplanes) with...
Influenza (see p. 26) seized many a notable, including: Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock; Prisoner, onetime Queens Borough President Maurice Connolly; Wickersham Commissioner and Radcliffe College President Ada Louise Comstock; Utah's Senator Reed Smoot...
...fulfilled, would be fastest in the world (1,210 mi. in 7 hr.). The planes, to be built by Detroit Aircraft Corp., are a six-passenger cabin type of Lockheed Sirius, heretofore built only in two-place open cockpit style. They will be powered by single 575-h. p. Wright Cyclones, will be equipped with retractable landing gear...
...patronesses of the second formal dance to be given by the Harvard Business Club at the Hotel Statler tonight from 9.30 to 2 o'clock will be Mrs. H. T. Lewis. Mrs. E. P. Learned, Mrs. C. P. Biddle, and Mrs. E. F. Wright it was announced yesterday...