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...Granville was one of the two most successful manufacturers of racing planes in the U. S. His factory at Springfield, Mass. turned out the Gee Bee (Granville Brothers) in which Jimmy Doolittle set a world's record (294 m. p. h.). Some people who had been interested in Bellanca were ready to finance Granny Granville on toward bigger things. Then he had bad luck when his two entries cracked up at Indianapolis last summer during the transcontinental Bendix Trophy race (TIME, July 10). Three months ago his backers withdrew. Granny Granville closed his Springfield shop, went to Manhattan...
When plump young Ronald Tucker Finney, prize bond broker of Emporia, Kans., was spending money few men in Kansas outdid him. He owned two Arabian thoroughbreds, a Bellanca monoplane, a fleet of automobiles, a Wild West show (101 Ranch), a floodlighted tennis court. When he was arrested for forging nearly $1,000,000 worth of municipal bonds (TIME, Aug. 21) he precipitated a scandal such as few Kansans have ever begotten. But when his father, Warren Wesley Finney, bank president and pillar of Emporia society, was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to from 36 to 600 years in jail (TIME...
Observers who watched a middle-aged Italian in blue bedroom slippers, grey sweater, blue serge suit and grey derby hat get into a big Bellanca monoplane at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, early last Saturday morning, felt that they were witnessing something unusual to the point of eccentricity. General Francesco de Pinedo was taking off alone for Bagdad, 6,300 mi. away. The cockpit of his ship, the Santa Lucia, was a museum of gadgets and curious supplies-eight watches, two colored kites, fishing tackle, a stomach pump to draw liquids from six vacuum bottles, a fresh air mask, a siren...
...Pinedo, and his skill failed. Not yet going fast enough to rise, his ship slewed sharply, heading straight for the field's administration building where 150 persons stood watching. Then it slewed further as though, foreseeing danger to many, de Pinedo chose disaster for himself alone. The thundering Bellanca crashed through a heavy wire fence, shearing off the landing gear. Its engine still roaring, it plunged on some 25 yd. before flumping on its side. Bright little flames were trickling up to the gas tanks. Watchers could see de Pinedo, who had been pitched through the windshield, writhing...
...liked to fish, to ride his two Arabian thoroughbreds. Ungovernably hospitable, he loved to have his friends play on his night-lighted tennis court, to take them riding in his Bellanca monoplane (formerly belonging to Actress Ann Harding), to take them to Eureka to see his 101 Ranch show (bought from Zack Miller a few months ago), to find them jobs when they were out of work. All Emporia's colored people swore by him for his generosity. He drove a flock of cars headed by a Fierce-Arrow. When his little girl had pneumonia, he sent...