Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Wright Brothers were experimenting with their flying contraption at College Park, Md., 25 years ago, they were pestered by a young Army corporal named William C. Ocker who wanted to take lessons. When they made their first successful test flight for the Army at Ft. Meyer, Va., Bill Ocker was there as an armed guard. From a greasemonkey and bamboo polisher at Curtiss Flying School, Corporal Ocker rose to be a pilot, then an inventor. Flying upside down in the clouds made him dizzy so he helped devise an instrument to prevent vertigo. When flying by instruments alone...
...equipment and personnel by air. On San Francisco Bay weather was almost too good. Loaded seaplanes need a brisk headwind or a slightly choppy sea to help them pull up from the water. The ships of 10-F huge Consolidated sesqui-planes with 100-ft. wingspread and twin Wright Cyclone engines, were each loaded to the gunwales. After a half hour's fruitless taxiing over glassy water Plane No. 4 hoisted herself into the sky. Thirty minutes later the flagplane piloted by Commander McGinnis got off. For nearly two hours they circled over the bay while the remaining four...
...president of Santa Fe: Edward A. Cudahy Jr., packer: Reuben G. Danielson, the bank's cashier; Edward Landsberg. president U. S. Brewing Co.; Judson F. Stone, McCormick estates: Willoughby George Walling, president of the Personal Loan & Saving? Bank. Among those retired: George McClelland Reynolds. Charles W. Nash, Robert Wright Stewart. Dennis Francis Kelly, George Fulmer Getz. Frederick Tudor Haskell...
...thematically unvaried throughout. If you are looking for an evening of good 100 per cent American smut, this is it. There's no nastiness in it; the only cloud in the welkin of direct and open-faced lechery is the obnoxious Senor Gomez, whom the play-wright gives no shrift...
...quirk of blank treaties gave Mr. Hull a graceful out. As he raced to catch his boat to Buenos Aires, he announced that able U. S. Minister to Uruguay J. Butler Wright, a member of the U. S. Delegation, will thoroughly examine Conference treaties as they are completed, signing those which seem to be in order, sending them to the State Department...