Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pigeon. It is the Collier Trophy, established 1911 by the late Robert Joseph Collier, son of old Publisher P. F. Collier of Collier's Weekly. Besides being editor of Collier's after the Spanish-American War, Son Robert was an early aeronaut, a director in 1909 of Wright Airplane Co., president in 1911 of Aero Club of America. In the Mexican border disorders of 1913 he loaned a plane & pilot to the Army, first use of an airplane by U. S. military forces...
...name of Glenn L. Martin is one of the oldest currently famed in U. S. aviation, and one of the least popular. When the Wright brothers were doing mysterious things in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, Glenn Martin, 17, was tinkering bicycles at his parents' home in Santa Ana, Calif. Four years later he built a glider: a year later, a crude 22-h.p. pusher airplane which got off the ground. Thereby he became the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own invention. To get funds for further experimentation Glenn Martin became...
Speeding to the inn came Boykin Cabell Wright, Bankster Harriman's son-in-law who asked to be left alone with the old man. Since Harriman was out on bail, the police had no jurisdiction over him. They withdrew. Then Harriman asked Wright to step out too while he dressed...
...Rowland, S. C. Salmon, Mark Saxton, F. F. Schimmel, O. M. Schloss, C. G. Sherwood, Roger Silsby, W. A. Smith, T. W. Steptoe, R. N. Svoboda, E. O. Tilton, J. M. Timken, P. A. Unger, G. E. Wesner, H. H. Wilder, J. A. Wilhelm, T. W. Wills, Collier Wright, R. S. Young...
...defeated Cobb (Y), 6-4, 6-4; G. H. Hartford, 2nd '34 defeated Hamilton (Y), 7-5, 6-3; Wardman (Y) defeated Sumner Redman '35, 4-6, 6-3, 6-0; M. P. Richmond '34 defeated Hill (Y), 7-5, 6-4; W. E. Ingalis, Jr. '35 defeated Wright...