Word: americans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Bernice, daughter of Walter Percy Chrysler (motors); and Edgar William Garbisch, onetime (1922-24), U. S. Military Academy footballer (all-American) ; at Great Neck...
...week Liberty magazine publishes a series of drawings entitled "News of the World" by Caricaturist Ralph Barton who also illustrates his own drama criticism for Life. Among Caricaturist Barton's offerings last week was (see cut) a "NEW ANIMAL for the great new merger combining the five great American circuses...
...visited Friedrichshafen, home of the Zeppelin Luftschiffbau, where dirigible-building is an adult profession. Mr. Litchfield, who long before the War had induced Goodyear Tire & Rubber to build balloons, saw opportunity in dirigibles. He dickered with Dr. Hugo Eckener, as usual in need of construction money, for the American rights to build rigid airships and for the loan of some Zeppelin technical men. The Goodyear men incorporated Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. The Zeppelin Works got a minority block of its stock. Dr. Eckener became a director/ Most important for the U. S. company was the transfer of Dr. Karl Arnstein, Prague...
...Herman Gerard Fokker draws cash and credit for his airplane factories in Holland and nine other European countries. Last week he disembarked at England from the U. S. and hastened to Mr. Sloan's transient London quarters. There they held a quick, pointed conference on combining European and American Fokker interests into a worldwide organization with factories on both continents and a centralized sales agency. Quickly after the talk Mr. Fokker left England in his private trimotored plane for a thorough inspection of European air activities...
...Chicago, delegates to the annual meeting of the Institute of American Meat Packers displayed bottles of liquid cosmetics. Purpose: to dye the skins of frankfurters in seven shades (blonde to brunette) with any color combinations...