Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HARRY WRIGHT...
Captain Harry George Armstrong, a salty ex-Marine doctor, is director of the Army's efficient Aero-Medical Research Laboratory at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Ten years ago Dr. Armstrong made his first parachute jump from an altitude of 2,200 feet, then published a cold, detailed medical report on his "free fall in space...
...Colonel Crozet was absent. Graduates had hoped to have his remains enshrined on the campus by centennial time, had sought a permit of exhumation from Shockoe Cemetery in Richmond. Few days before, Elizabeth Wright Weddell, sister of Ambassador to Argentina Alexander Weddell, turned up records of the Colonel's burial (in 1864) in another cemetery. Regretfully, V. M. I. celebrated without its founder, hoped soon to bring him home...
...Airplanes, parts and motors from planemakers: United Aircraft, $70,000,000; Curtiss-Wright, $60,000,000; Douglas Aircraft, $30,000,000; Lockheed, $6,000,000; Republic Aviation, $4,000,000. Big buyers: France and Britain. Little buyers: Sweden ($4,000,000), Iraq...
Supreme Court justices from the beginning have been "statesmen," Wright declared, and the recent recognition of their dual role--determiners of social policy as well as interpreters of the law, merely expresses a condition that has aways existed...