Word: bleriot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Point in the first place. His older brother had the appointment and ditched it, but small-town Dr. Arnold was determined that one of his sons should become an officer. Hap was persuaded to pinch-hit, was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant of infantry in 1907. When he saw Louis Bleriot's English Channel-hopping monoplane on exhibition in Paris in 1909, he didn't even know what the freakish contraption was. When he figured it out, his first.thought forecast the futures of both Hap Arnold and air power. "If one man could do it once, what...
...bald head gleaming under the photographers' lights, gimlet-eyed Benny Meyers last week heard himself declared guilty on three counts. Bleriot H. Lamarre had testified that Meyers had ordered him to lie to a Senate investigating committee about Meyers' connection with Aviation Electric Co. of Dayton, Ohio (TIME, Dec. 1). Meyers had taken $150,000 out of the company while paying Lamarre, as dummy president, a grudging $50 a week. Benny Meyers had not even offered character witnesses...
...Washington last week, a federal grand jury indicted Major General Bennett E. Meyers for perjury and for suborning Bleriot H. Lamarre (who was also indicted) to give false testimony before the Senate War Investigating Committee (TIME, Dec. 1). Ferreting out crime was not the committee's job, but it could now boast of having brought two major war-purchasing scandals to action in criminal courts. Its other case-that of ex-Congressman Andrew May and the Garsson brothers-had resulted in a conviction. The Government's chief crime-detection and prosecuting agency-the Department of Justice...
...found what he wanted in a mild young man named Bleriot H. Lamarre, a $28-a-week bookkeeper married to a handsome brunette named Mildred Readnower. Mildred had been Benny Meyers' secretary at Wright Field. Bookkeeper Lamarre became Aviation Electric's new president. But he was boss on the letterheads only; Meyers told him what to do and how much to pay himself ($38 a week...
...this expansion, bouquets go to 31-year-old millionaire-socialite Richard Chichester du Pont, onetime champion glider pilot. Talked about since a piano-wired Bleriot monoplane officially hauled the first sack of mail in 1911, rural air mail was just talk until handsome young Du Pont got the bright idea that overcame the two big obstacles to small-town air mail: expense of landing fields, loss of time and money making stops. Du Font's idea: land only when necessary, otherwise swoop low over clearings at 100 m.p.h., simultaneously drop incoming mail, pick up outgoing letters and packages...