Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blimps, helicopters, jet planes and big bombers flew over Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, N.C. to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Wilbur and Orville Wright's first flight. At the same time the original Wright airplane-which was recently brought to the U.S. after 20 years in London's Science Museum-was hung up beside Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis in Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
Frank Lloyd Wright, venerable panjandrum of modern U.S. architecture, finally (at 79) got grudging recognition from the august American Institute of Architects (of which he is not a member): their 16th Gold Medal Award in 42 years. Apparently, it had not been unanimous. Blurted the Westchester (N.Y.) chapter: "His achievements do not entitle him to join the company of such men as McKim [Boston Public Library], Post [Wisconsin State Capitol], Bacon [Lincoln Memorial], Goodhue [Nebraska State Capitol], Cret [Washington's Federal Reserve Building], and Sullivan [Chicago's Stock Exchange...
...Copilot. After 13 years as boss of Curtiss-Wright Corp., Guy W. Vaughan, 64, shifted some of the load to younger shoulders. As oldtime airman Vaughan moved to board chairman, William C. Jordan, 50, onetime vice president and general manager of Steel Products Engineering Co., became president. Vaughan hired Jordan away after the war, and groomed him for his new job by making him general manager of the Curtiss-Wright airplane division and later vice president and general manager of Wright Aeronautical, the engine-building division...
Nobody would appreciate this more than Boston Skating club publicity manager Ben Wright. "It would be wonderful for figure skating in this region," Wright claims. "We made dick an honorary life member of the Club, and he should be a real inspiration for the younger members." Wright can't understand why some people think figure skating is a feminine sport. "Anybody who feels that way should watch Button for five minutes," he explains. "When Dick goes into the air, he uses up just as much energy as a broadjumper...
...others are president Frederick F. Sills of Bowdoin College; president Mildred McAfee Herton of Wollesley College; Dean Merriam Thronton of Spring field College; Mrs. Carl Meinkae, dean of Colby Junior College; and the Very Reverend John Wright, auxiliary bishop of Boston...