Word: akerman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week the boy, Harold Hatlestad, Minneapolis high-school student, appeared with 30 other youngsters and 30 model machines at the University's Chemistry Auditorium. It was the annual Originality Contest (sponsored by Professor Akerman) of the Twin City Boys' Air- plane Model Makers Club. There were designs ranging from a maple leaf type offered by Clarence Maihori, a Japanese, to a futuristic conception of 21st Century transport submitted by Robert Hillberg. Harold Hatlestad's rotor ship took first place...
Exclaimed Professor Akerman, long experienced engineer for commercial airplane companies: "This boy has discovered a completely new method of sustension ... so original that it will be of worth while importance to the aviation world...
...even huger Daily Chronicle (circulation: 1,000,000), onetime organ of David Lloyd George, onetime employer of Reporters James Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Gibbs. Appeared the Daily News & Chronicle, to be administered by five trustees: Lord Cowdray, Henry Tylor Cadbury, Walter Thomas Layton, B. H. Binder, J. C. Akerman...