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In 1926, Henry Ford displayed an experimental single-seat aeroplane that he called the " sky flivver ".
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For many years he was a member of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, pastored from 1905 to 1926 by Social Gospel exponent Henry Sloane Coffin, while his wife and daughter belonged to the Brick Presbyterian Church.
* John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough ( b. 1926 ), elder son of the 10th Duke
Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).
* 1926 – Original Sam ' n ' Henry aired on Chicago, Illinois radio later renamed Amos ' n ' Andy in 1928.
In 1926, Henry Watson Fowler recommended that the word be restricted to this grammar-related meaning only:
Additionally, the Henry C. Mustin Naval Air Facility was operational at the Philadelphia Navy Yard from 1926 to 1963.
She was accepted to the membership of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1926, becoming its second female member ; the society later awarded both her and her husband ( posthumously ) the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal in 1944 for her contributions to industrial engineering.
His siblings were Blanch ( 1846 – 1935 ), Viola ( 1848 – 1925 ), Rose ( b. 1854 ), Henry ( 1856 – 1926 ) and Eliza ( 1860 – 1941 ).
In 1927 he published a short book, On the Poems of Henry Vaughan, Characteristics and Intimations, with his principal Latin poems carefully translated into English verse ( London: H. Cobden-Sanderson, 1927 ), expanding and revising an essay that he had published in November 1926 in the London Mercury.
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), by Henry Watson Fowler ( 1858 – 1933 ), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing.
In May 1926, having made emotional relationship in the " here-and-now " central to his practice of psychotherapy, Rank moved to Paris where he became a psychotherapist for artists such as Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin and lectured at the Sorbonne ( Lieberman, 1985 ).
* Biddy Anderson ( John Henry Anderson, 1874 – 1926 ), South African cricketer who played a single Test Match
By 1926, construction of the Belgrave Hospital for Children — designed by Henry Percy Adams and Charles Holden-was complete.
The fort was decommissioned in 1876, and in 1926 the site was donated to the town by Cara Rogers Broughton ( a daughter of Henry Huttleston Rogers ).
In 1926 Skelly Oil Company purchased a 320-acre lease from Henry Schafer, a local rancher on whose land the Roxana oil pool was located.
First built on the North Shore in Crystal Bay by Robert Sherman in 1926, the Calneva cabin became the property of Norman Henry Biltz and was sold to Bill Graham and Jim McKay in 1929.
1926 and Ford
In 1926 he visited America, and was sent to Detroit to study the conditions of the workers at the Ford Automotive company.
Early airplanes with closed cockpits include the 1924 Fokker tri-motor, the 1926 German Junkers W. 34 transport, the 1926 Ford Tri-Motor, the 1927 Lockheed Vega, the Spirit of St. Louis and the passenger aircraft manufactured by the Douglas and Boeing companies during the mid-1930s.
In the USA, Stout Airways was the first to employ stewards in 1926, working on Ford Trimotor planes between Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan.
On 9 May 1926, Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett attempted a flight over the North Pole in a Fokker F-VII Tri-motor called the Josephine Ford.
In 1926, Vollmer played himself in the silent serial Officer 444 which was filmed in Berkeley under the direction of John Ford's brother Francis Ford.
The first regularly scheduled air service in the United States was between Grand Rapids and Detroit ( actually Dearborn's Ford Airport ) on a Ford-Stout monoplane named Miss Grand Rapids, which commenced July 26, 1926.
In 1926, Ford was arrested and imprisoned for attempting to sell drugs to an undercover police officer, serving three years in San Quentin State Prison.
* Ford Hangar at The Lansing Municipal Airport, Lansing, Illinois ( South Suburban Chicago Area ), 1926
It was adapted for the stage in 1926, and then a 1928 silent movie, starring Ruth Taylor, Alice White, Ford Sterling, and Mack Swain, which is now lost.
Clark's design was submitted to and drawn upon by George B. Ford, a city planner and civilian advisor to the Construction Service of the Quartermaster Corps whose approval of all site plans for the Army was required between 1926 and 1930.
Leonard Guy Ford, Jr. ( February 18, 1926 – March 14, 1972 ) was an American football defensive end.
They jointly founded and from 1926 to 1936 held an interest in The Pressed Steel Company of Great Britain Limited ( Cowley, England ), which built bodies for Morris Motors and others, and Ambi-Budd ( Germany ), which supplied Adler, Audi, BMW, NAG and Wanderer ; and earned royalties from Bliss ( who built bodies for Citroën and Ford of Britain ).
In 1926 he became head of Ford's Aircraft Division, which developed and built the Ford Trimotor ; he was also responsible for the construction of Ford's pioneering private airport ( now the location of a Ford test track ) and the first airport hotel ( now the Dearborn Inn ).
Alfred Hans Rzeppa ( January 23, 1885 – January 1965 ) was an engineer working at Ford Motor Company who invented a version of constant-velocity joint in 1926.
On May 5, 1926 Martin offered his resignation to Henry and Edsel Ford as First Vice President of the Ford Motor Company.
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