Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Collier Trophy which annually rewards outstanding development in U. S. aeronautics. The third, and in some respects the most significant, is the Daniel Guggenheim Gold Medal which last week went to Board Chairman William Edward Boeing of potent United Aircraft & Transport Corp. First awarded in 1929 to Orville Wright, the Guggenheim Medal has gone each year to outstanding scientists in advanced aeronautical engineering. No aeronautical engineer is this year's winner, but a hard-headed industrialist who turned to flying as a hobby, began making airplanes as a whim and ended up by giving the world a new standard...
Glenn Martin was fiddling with bicycles at home in Santa Ana, Calif, in 1903 when the Wright brothers made historic news at Kitty Hawk. By 1907 he was able to build himself a glider and a year later he was the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own devising. To laymen the name of Glenn L. Martin has today receded into the dim anonymity of military aviation, but in his youth Glenn Martin was his own able pressagent. He barnstormed with a lady parachute jumper who perched in pink tights...
...California Martin concern was merged with Wright Co. in 1917, but Glenn Martin, whose temper is sharp, soon quit to re-establish his own plant, this time in Cleveland...
...bill authorizing the Federal Government to pay $25,000 reward for capture, dead or alive, of the nation's chief desperadoes was introduced today by Rep. Wright Patman...
...Winning of Barbara Worth (1911) Harold Bell Wright...