Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rich and famed is Charles Lanier Lawrance. designer of the Wright Whirlwind engine, onetime vice president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. One day last week big, amiable "Charley" Lawrance stood up on a rostrum of a bleak lecture hall at Manhattan's Columbia University. Gravely he drawled from a typewritten sheet: ". . . Cash on hand, $875.06. . . . Accounts receivable . . . 80?. . . . Net worth. $6,077.76." Amid a patter of applause Mr. Lawrance sat down...
...this season, the Varsity swimming team will encounter a brilliant Columbia out-fit tonight at 8.15 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool. In Eugene Jennings, the visitors bring with them one of the fastest men in the East in the two sprint events, while Captain Thomas Wright has turned in remarkable times for the two distance swims. With this competition the Harvard team will undoubtedly be pushed to the limit to keep its record of victories intact...
...airplane designers could hold their tongues like Orville Wright and Charles Lindbergh, what would happen...
...safest repositories for secrets of U. S. aviation are Charles A. Lindbergh and Orville Wright. Both have spent years successfully resisting efforts of newshawks to make them talk. Last week Airmen Lindbergh and Wright had a good chance to teach their secretiveness to others. They went to Washington for a meeting of the executive committee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, of which they are members. Laid before the committee was a complaint from the Navy and War Departments that secret aircraft developments submitted to the N.A.C.A. for research had leaked into the hands of foreign powers. Last week...
...around with marine engines in Hamilton, Ohio, found himself with $40 to invest. Long interested in aviation, he decided to buy 200 shares of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. Year before that company had been launched by his father, Col. Edward Andrew Deeds of National Cash Register, and two dissatisfied Wright Aeronautical Corp. executives- Frederick Brant Rentschler and George Jackson Mead. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft had one small shop at Hartford, Conn, and $1,000,000 worth of debts. On paper its stock was not worth even the 20? per share "Chuck" Deeds had paid...