Word: bendix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wherever held, Manager Henderson intends to limit the races to high-speed ships, eliminate events for commercial types, cut out all cross-country derbies except the transcontinental Bendix Trophy; slash admission prices...
...Chicago. Vincent Bendix, automotive and aviation accessories man. sold the famed, ugly, reddish-brown Potter Palmer "castle" on Lake Shore Drive to a speculative syndicate. Still owned by Potter Palmer Jr. are the mansion's famed murals...
...time it took to paint and dry a car. "We might be able to do it in 34 days," he was told. "An hour would be more like it," he snapped back. *Buick's innovation of last year, "Wizard Control," was engineered by the Bragg-Kliesrath division of Bendix Aviation Corp. This year's selling feature, ''No-Draft Ventilation"-panels opening outward like a French window-was done independently by the Fisher Body division. GM's new "starterator"-self starter hitched to accelerator-was brought out by Malcolm Stevenson, oldtime polo player, and John Good...
...construction cost or who set up its comfortable endowment fund?an amount not for publication. There have been many contributors, most of them small. But much came from such potent capitalists as the Messrs. Charles Burrall Pike (the Society's president) and Potter Palmer, the late Julius Rosenwald, Vincent Bendix, Joy Morton. Director for the past five years has been professorial L. Hubbard Shattuck, who dislikes his first name, will not reveal...
Diminutive Jimmy Haizlip swooped across the Cleveland finish line to win the Bendix prize, then sped on for a coast-to-coast record. When he set his little plane down on Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., he had spanned the Continent in 10 hr. 19 min., nearly an hour faster than Major Doolittle's 1931 record. No sooner had Jimmy Haizlip landed than Roscoe Turner roared down on the field, 39 min. behind but still far ahead of the Doolittle time...