Word: wrights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...NEVER GREW UP (316 pp.)-Cobma Wright-Prentice-Hall...
Died. Clement M. Keys, 75, organizer and first president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. and longtime aviation financier; after long illness; in Manhattan. In the post-World War I slump he bought control of the old Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., by 1929 had 1) financed $80 million worth of aviation enterprises, 2) formed the Transcontinental Air Transport, forefather of T.W.A., with Charles A. Lindbergh as technician-executive, 3) helped finance the first trans-U.S. airmail and passenger services, 4) started the first passenger service in China...
...Victor Show (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). Starring Ezio Pinza. Guest: Martha Wright...
...Lafargue Clinic (TIME, Dec. 1, 1947), where Manhattan Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and a staff of 25 give psychiatric help, at 25? a session, to anyone, black or white. The clinic began in 1946 as a collaboration between Father Bishop, Psychiatrist Wertham and Negro Author Richard (Native Son) Wright. Nowadays, an average of 60 people a week come to the clinic for help...
...Snarling everything was the usual amount of red tape. A Detroit automaker got a jet-engine letter of intent in January 1950, sent Wright Field a complete list of the machine tools needed. Wright Field returned the list, saying: "This is not the right way; use code 76." The rewritten list was also returned with the message, "Sorry, we have decided to use different forms; make 39 copies." After 39 copies, each weighing 5¼ lbs., were dispatched, Wright Field requested that "this be done over." The engine, which should have started coming out in February 1951, will...