Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This, on the word of knowing Nancy Randolph, society reporter of the proletarian New York News, was what cafe society thought about the Whitney crash last week. Cafeteria society was shocked, too, and downtown they were taking it harder than any other financial scandal of the century. True, Joseph Wright Harriman and Bernard K. Marcus had misapplied bank funds and been sent to jail. Charley Mitchell was penalized for tax deficiencies and Al Wiggin had paid off stockholders to stop their suits. There was old Sam Insull, too, although Wall Street is never very surprised at the shenanigans...
Under the registered trademark name Stratoliner, Boeing last week announced it was ready for additional orders from all comers, and among the first to be interested was American Airlines. The new ship will cost $340,500, have four 900 h.p. Wright Cyclone engines, wing span of 107 ft., length of 74 ft. The fuselage, 11 ft. wide, seats 33 daytime passengers, has berths for 16, reclining chairs for nine night travelers, accommodation for three flying officers, hostess and Filipino house boy. Its normal speed is around 200 m.p.h., range, with full 9,750-lb. load, about 1,000 miles...
Second prize went to a team of Arthur B. Gnaedinger, Robert Atwater, John B. Harlow, and Robert L. Wright. George F. Snell ranked third, while John H. Funk won the fourth prize which was contributed by Colonel Apted, one of the judges. The other judges were Dean Hanford and Morris Earle...
Ending in a swing version of "Fair Harvard," the runner-up team gave an act as radio comedians. Harlow played the trumpet and Wright the piano, while the other two sang and trucked during the rendition of the song, inserting at one point "I could sing Boula, Boula, even sing ...." Snell's contribution was featured by a rendition of Beethoven's "Minnet in G" on the harmonica, and Funk Sang the prologue to "Pagliacci...
...enough to save it for the Elis as Brua and Gilkey turned it against them by a 5 to 4 tally. In the sabre, the Elis eked out a 5 to 4 win thanks to the nice swords play of Isaacs and Mims, who overshadowed the Crimson contingent of Wright, Alberts, and Baff...