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...upward pace grew slower and slower. At 37,000 ft. frost formed upon his goggles. At about that time another airplane arrived?too late?at the airfield below, bringing another naval flier with a pair of electrically heated goggles that will not frost. The bringer of the goggles was Zeus,* brother of Apollo Soucek, coming from the Philadelphia naval aircraft factory...
...happily for Cleveland, President William Robert Wilson of the Detroit Guardian Trust Co., a onetime automobile executive, planned with Detroit, Chicago. Manhattan and Cleveland bankers to enter commercial aviation. They formed the Great Lakes Aircraft Corp. with their thoughts on the Martin factory and airfield about to be abandoned in Cleveland. Glenn L. Martin was willing to sell his property, leases and restricted rights to his patents for about $2.000,000. Last week the deal was closed. Great Lake? Aircraft will build medium-sized planes to carry passengers and mail...
Madrid. American Ambassador Ogden Hammond met Miss Elder and Pilot Haldeman at Getafe Airfield. Someone filled her arms with flowers. They lunched with the Royal Spanish Air Club; were visited at the Embassy by General Primo De Rivera, Dictator Premier; left by train for Bayonne, France, whence they would fly to Paris...