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...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 to look for a job. Last week bad luck dogged him to Spartanburg, S. C. His little Gee Bee crashed to avoid CWA workers who did not know enough...
...omitted)(ooo omitted) Allegheny Steel ....$303 $8260 Crown Cork & Seal. 971 247 General Foods 9,578 10,339 American Rolling Mill 312D 1,821D Remington Rand ... null 1,301D Bendix Aviation .... 1,096 367D U. S. Steel 28,0740 54,542D General Outdoor Advertising QiQD 1,6970 National Steel 2,569 1,308 Coca-Cola 8,342 8,802 The Bureau of Railway Economics reported the net operating revenue of 149 Class 1 railroads for the first nine months up to $340,000,000 from $197,000,000 a year ago. Whereas most oil companies did not show nine-month...
...month he got $1,000 for eight jumps at the California State Fair at Sacramento. On he went to Chicago for the International Air Races, spent the whole sum on four new 'chutes. Following the races he attended a party at the South Bend, Ind. home of Vincent Bendix (automobile and airplane parts). Another guest, Charles T. Otto, offered to fly him and a girl friend back across Lake Michigan's tip to Chicago in an autogiro. The 'giro never reached shore...
However uninspiring, the 280 m.p.h. mark earned an additional $1,135 for Roscoe Turner, the able, gaudy flyer who collected $5,050 last fortnight by winning the transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race. Last week his Wedell-Williams racer flashed off a 249 m.p.h. lap downwind...
...sold the family castle to Vincent Bendix for $3,000,000. That aviation and auto accessory tycoon listed it in the telephone book as "The Bendix Galleries," after adding Rembrandts and Christys. He modernized the elevator, installed a barber's chair for his own use and gave many a loud party. Later he passed it on to a syndicate for the amount of the mortgage...