Word: aero
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discussion in the nation's clubs and classrooms. (In three months more than 1,700 schools subscribed for a year of these films.) And one of its regular releases was shown in war plants all over the country to build the morale of industrial workers. (Said the Aero Products Division of General Motors after showing this film : "Absenteeism took a sharp decline sharp decline - and has never gone back to the old figures.") In its early days MOT touched on as many as six topics in a single film: Vol. I, No. i ranged from a speakeasy in Manhattan...
Died. Vincent ("Ben") Bendix, 62, massive, restless, auto-aero parts manufacturer, inventor of the first practical self-starter (1912), founder of Bendix Aviation Corp., president of Bendix Helicopter, Inc. (planning postwar mass production of four-passenger helicopter sedans); of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. Despite the vast success of his companies, personal reverses (real-estate projects, a whopping divorce settlement) sent him into bankruptcy...
Young Ted, who went to work for Barnsdall after graduating from St. Paul's School, set out in 1935 with his own wildcatting and drilling company, Falcon Seaboard Drilling Co. Later, he organized Aero Exploration Co. to map oil lands as one of his jobs, traced the route of Big Inch from Texas to New Jersey. But Aero, which made aircraft surveys, gave him a hankering for the aviation business...
...field was the site of Wilbur Wright's European experimental flights in 1908, the monument a memorial by France's Aero Club. In the 36 years since the Wrights showed France their flimsy, underpowered craft there had been progress-of a sort...
...last, but not least. Dick Gilbert-"Aero-Why I thought it was the Thorn Case. And after I had suggested a salesman to cover Russia, too. Do you think they'll notice...