Word: aero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Control Board of the U. S. Army Air Service, Personal Representative of the Chief of the U. S. Army Air Service on the Liquidation Committee in France, Air Attache to the U. S. Embassy at Paris (the first ever appointed to such a post), Governor of the Aero Club of America, Treasurer of the National Aeronautic Association, an international banker and authority on conditions in the Eastern Baltic Republics, and a West Point graduate retiring from the Army in 1919 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. 4) That the "onetime Navy aircraft engineer" (Holden Chester Richardson) was, in fact...
...high speeds has retarded land plane design. M. Bleriot suggests that very fast planes keep speeding until they lose their momentum in air, then float to earth by huge parachutes. Treed. Over the Long Island outskirts of New York City, one Warren Engel, student flyer of the German-American Aero Club, ran out of gas. The best landing in his judgment was the cushiony top of a Mrs. Mary Johnson's 300-year-old oak tree. He alighted. Killed: two Johnson hens, by fright. Injured: Mrs. Johnson's wash, by oil leaking from the treed ship; Student Engel...
Enter Raskob. John Jacob Raskob, quiescent financially since he left General Motors to manage the Smith campaign for President, has bought a large stock interest in Aero Supply Manufacturing Co., Inc., called the "oldest aviation accessory enterprise in the country." Aero Supply owns Standard Automatic Products Co. of Corry, Pa., and National Steel Products Co. of Ohio. Rumored: a big Raskob-headed air corporation...
...brick and steel hangar is capable of housing fifteen planes and is also equipped with a first-class machine shop. A $10,000 restaurant, adjacent to the hangar serves spectators and visiting pilots with excellent cuisine. At present the port boasts of four ships?two Warner Travel Airs, an Aero-Avian and one CH 300 Bellanca Monoplane...
Montgomery Ward & Co. is also considering marketing an automobile. Automotive bystanders, hearing that General Motors was experimenting with a small, airplane-motored automobile priced around $250, to be shipped in a box which would serve also as its garage, linked this rumored "aero-car" with the Montgomery Ward story. General Motors offices belittled the story, said that with 30,000 G. M. dealers there was no need for mailorder distribution of General Motors products. Asked whether General Motors was planning a car of the type described, the reply was that General Motors had so many experimental projects, each productive...