Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Airlines Vultees and Harry Richman's Lady Peace. Most of the rest of the Vimalert shipment consisted of 411 motors and enough parts to make 150 more. All of the disassembled stuff had been sold as unfit for further duty by the U. S. Army Air Corps at Wright Field, Dayton. Last week it was still largely in Army depots and at Dayton Brigadier General Augustine W. Robins, chief of the Materiel Division of the Air Corps, firmly announced that ''it will not be shipped until money for the purchase has arrived." Envious airplane dealers observed that...
...Congress, to help stop bloody war in the Chaco jungles, authorized the President to forbid shipment of U. S. arms and munitions to Bolivia and Paraguay. President Roosevelt promptly proclaimed such an embargo, kept it in force until November 1935. Last January Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. and others were indicted for selling 15 machine guns to Bolivia during the embargo. In defense they argued that Congress had improperly delegated its power to the President. A Federal District judge in Brooklyn agreed with them, dismissed the indictment. The Government appealed to the Supreme Court...
...Furlong '37, Lemuel B. Hunter '37, Hubert H. Nexon '37, Theodore C. Osborne '37, Theodore H. Rome ocC, Walter B. Rosen '37, William A. Salant '36, Robert E. Shalen '37, William V. Smith '37, Sheldon C. Sommers '37, Arthur Szathmary '38, Peter R. Viereck '37, and Charles C. Wright...
This week hundreds of scientists, inventors, engineers and industrialists assembled in Washington to observe the centennial of the U. S. Patent Office as an autonomous organization. Lionized were six famed inventors: Orville Wright; Simon Lake, pioneer submarine experimenter who is currently trying to salvage $4,000,000 in gold from the hulk of an old British frigate at the bottom of New York's East River; Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, RCA-Victor television ace; William David Coolidge, General Electric's No. 1 x-ray researcher; Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion radio tube; and Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor...
...history, as chosen by the ballots of a secret committee. The twelve: Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Robert Fulton, Charles Goodyear (vulcanized rubber), Charles Martin Hall (commercial aluminum), Elias Howe (sewing machine), Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper), Ottmar Mergenthaler (linotype), Samuel Finley Breese Morse, George Westinghouse, Wilbur Wright, Eli Whitney...