Word: ord
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those previously announced, Brinckley of Yale has been awarded the number two spot in the high jump, since Bob Partlow, who is already slated to broad jump, withdrew; Marshall MacIsaac will be the second pole vaulter on the basis of his performance in the Heptagonal; and Yale's Bob Ord earned a berth when he beat out Joe Bradley in a special...
...yard run--Alfred J. Hanlon, Jr., '39; (run-off on Tuesday, May 23, between Joseph C. Bradley '39 and Ord of Yale...
...consists of two seaplanes-a small, swift, long-range ship securely locked on the back of a big short-range "mother" flying boat. The top plane, named Mercury, has a 73-ft. wing span, weighs 20,000 lb. loaded, is powered with four air-cooled 16-cyl. Napier-Half ord 340-h.p. engines, carries a total payload of 1,000 lb. (but no passengers) 3,500 mi. at 160 m.p.h. Its mother beneath, Maia, weighs 40,000 lb. loaded, has four big 9-cyl., 960-h.p. Bristol "Pegasus" radial engines, a wing span of 114 ft., speed of 160 m.p.h...
Spiciest bit was a memorandum found in the files of George F. Baker, Chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, which Senator Wheeler read into the rec ord. It related a telephone conversation in March 1935 in which Harold Stanley, then a Morgan partner, told a vice president of the First National that "the Van Sweringens, heretofore having drawn no salaries from the enterprises and for some time having been living on their insurance, are up against it to provide for living expenses. They estimate their joint require ments to be $150,000 a year, the principal items being...
...Wildfowlers since earliest times have for ever bewailed the disappearance of the good old days. 'Fowling,' they say, 'is not what it was, and probably never will be again.' Ever since Colonel Hawker wrote so scathingly of the Milf ord snobs -that unrivalled garrison of tit-shooters and shore-poppers, writers would have us be lieve that the sport has been on the down grade. But I believe this to be a fallacy...