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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glenn Martin's fancy flying was done for the sole purpose of financing further experimentation. By 1912 he had a plane factory running full blast, and a year later received his first Government contract. In 1918 came the first of the famed twin-engine Martin bombers and since then he has built hundreds of Army & Navy planes. The Martin which won the Collier Trophy in 1933 cruises at 200 m.p.h. with two tons of bombs in its belly. Before the House Naval Affairs Committee in Washington last winter Glenn Martin testified that he had done...
...Olds. An oldtime Dry who used to insist that the return of 4% beer would make two idle for every one it employed, President Scott was Reo's general manager with dictatorial powers until last December. Mr. Scott's endorsement of the Diamond committee brought an angry blast from the Reo management: "We agree with the independent stockholders' committee that the results of operations of the company during the past few years have been unsatisfactory. For that very reason the board . . . voted to remove Mr. Scott from the position of general manager." As for the unfortunate...
...Hence his devotees, with equal catholicity, carried to the pacifist students' meeting in the Harvard Yard last week banners bearing the slogans: "Down with war!" and "Down with peace!" To every attack on Harvard's R.O.T.C. a bugler of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club blew a shrill blast on his trumpet. When the pacifist speaker called for a cheer for peace a member of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club called for a cheer for war. The student body enjoyed the show hugely...
...five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants. The fire, starting on the third floor, shot up the stair well, down the hallways and through the flimsy walls and doors as if they were paper. By the time the fire department arrived the whole interior was roaring like a blast furnace. Seven tenants were cooked alive. Week before in New York City six persons were incinerated in tenements. Week before that ten were burned alive. Since Jan. 1, 48 persons have died in 25 tenement fires. After one fire last month in a notorious slum area in which eight lives...
...began producing cars in 1921. Even before Depression, the makers found that many a well-to-do U. S. businessman, financially able to own a Rolls, hesitated to buy one for fear of appearing unduly swanky in so luxurious a car (average price: $18,000). Rolls-Royce hastened to blast away this sales resistance with advertisements boldly captioned: To the Man Who is Afraid to Let His Dreams Come True. But during Depression the number of such fearful men grew so great that Rolls-Royce sales since 1931 fell off over 50% to $926,000. Last week, after four years...