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Bridge was played, innumerable cigarets were smoked. One motor began spurting oil. Sergeant Roy Hooe pussyfooted along the slim runway leading to the spewing machine, did some windy tinkering. Capt. Ira Eaker, at the joy stick, wore a haggard grin. He headed back toward Los Angeles. The day was sunny, the fog had drifted away. The fourth day, the eighty-seventh hour passed. Had the five flown directly eastward the same distance from their starting point they would have been winging over Europe...
Engaged. Almira G. Rockefeller, only daughter of the late William G. Rockefeller, grandniece of John Davison Rockefeller, recent debutante, of Manhattan & Greenwich, Conn.; to M. Roy Jackson, able huntsman, widower, father of two married daughters...
...Confirmed in office Secretary of Commerce William Fairfield Whiting, and other recess appointees (not including Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West, whose case was heard in committee...
...Uneeda Biscuit was Uneeda Cracker; the change being made because "biscuits" seemed to rank "crackers" in popular estimation. National Biscuit is the largest biscuit manufacturer in the world, has never reported a deficit, had a net income of $13,038,000, first nine months of 1928. Its president, Roy Everett Tomlinson, has been with the company since 1903. He succeeded Founder Adolphus Williamson Green to the presidency in 1917. He is 51, looks younger, and is so sincerely publicity-shy that even his friend Bruce Barton, famed advertising man, author and interviewer, cannot get a story from...
...counters last week announced that there were 23,000,000 milk cows in the U. S. Roy C. Potts, of the Department of Agriculture, said each U. S. inhabitant drinks an average of 1½ lbs. of milk per day; consumes another 1½ lbs. in butter, cheese and bread...