Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planes (model 307) will look like the 299, weigh 21 tons, carry 32 or sleep 18 passengers, speed at about 250 m.p.h. with 75% of the power of four Wright "Cyclones." As mail or experimental planes, they will have a range of 4,000 miles. Cost: $300,000 each. P.A.A. is to get two within the year, outfitted with mechanical cabin superchargers to fit them for high flying. Last week P.A.A. refused to divulge where it would use the two ships, but observers guessed that the two ships would start experimental high-altitude flights across the Atlantic. T.W.A. needs...
...gallantry in action. British too and important to any fashion scout is Designer Norman Hartnell, whose sweeping formal evening gowns are highly favored by long-limbed British peeresses. Despite his name, Designer Mainbocher was born in Chicago, worked for a long time as pianist for Night Club Singer Cobina Wright, later as an associate editor of Vogue's Paris edition...
Cedric Seager and John Bruce Heath, promoters of the Financial Observer, had in mind neither of the paper's models when they agitated it last year. Briton and American, they had in mind the revered London Economist. They hired Novelist Reginald Wright Kauffman (The House of Bondage) for editor, transferred him from the Washington Post to the Observer's Manhattan office. Editor Kauffman appointed as his general manager the Post's General Manager Eugene MacLean. Executive Editor of the Observer is Columbia University's economist, Ralph West Robey...
Charles G. Haines, visiting professor of Government, returned to the simpler method of refusing to comment, saying simply, "No, nothing to say." Benjamin F. Wright, assistant professor of Government, also refused to say anything for publication. Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, elaborated a bit more, saying he felt "something of the sort would have to be done if we were to have an efficient democracy. I think it's rather ingenious, but Im not appalled...
...January 1934, Navy flyers made the longest non-stop formation flight in aviation history. Patrol Squadron VP-10, consisting of six big Wright Cyclone-powered Consolidated Navy patrol flying boats and 30 officers and men, flew 2,399 mi. over the Pacific Ocean from San Fran cisco to Honolulu's Pearl Harbor...