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Clippers. Equipment means airplanes. The first two of six flying boats, larger than any aircraft heretofore constructed in the U. S., are now abuilding for Pan American. From the Sikorsky plant at Bridgeport, which will produce three of the boats, the first will emerge for flight tests this autumn. The Glenn L. Martin Co. in Baltimore, builder of the other three, is expected to have one ready next summer. Both types of machines, known to Pan American as "clippers," are four-engined monoplanes. On Pan American's present routes they could carry 50 passengers & cargo. With mail only, they...
Boston's Curley, Milwaukee's Hoan, Houston's Holcombe, New Orleans' Walmsley, Akron's Sparks, Cleveland's Miller. Bridgeport's Buckingham, Elizabeth's Williams. Salt Lake City's Marcus, Providence's Dunne. Newark's Ellenstein, Jersey City's Hague. Rochester's Oviatt. Yonkers' Loehr, Nashville's House, Worcester's Mahoney and a score more mayors of a score more U. S. cities trooped into the Chinese Room of Washington's Mayflower Hotel one sizzling hot day last week. They took off their coats...
...wife and son Jon have been living. Several days a week he spends in the office of Pan American Airways, on the 42nd floor of Manhattan's Chanin Building, poring over blueprints, charts, tables, operations reports. He makes frequent trips to the Sikorsky plant at Bridgeport, Conn. and the Glenn L. Martin factory in Balti more, to watch progress on big flying boats abuilding for Pan American. Every Tues day, and often on other days, he goes up the street a block from the Chanin Building to the Graybar, to his duties as technical chairman of Transcontinental & West...
...week Producer Warner announced that he had accepted, not only for himself but for his employes, an invitation to attend President-elect Roosevelt's inauguration. The Warner party's train, which will go to Washington via San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Omaha, Denver, Akron, McKeesport, New Haven, Bridgeport, and 46 other cities, with 15 or more Warner Brothers performers making personal appearances, will be called "The Forty-Second Street Special...
...patriotism was too strong to be resisted by President Luiz M. Sanchez Cerro of Peru, into whose tough little body would-be assassins have all too often fired bullets (TIME, March 14). By the end of last September both Colombia and Peru were mobilizing men, money and munitions. In Bridgeport, Conn, on Sept. 30, close-lipped Saunders Norvell, president of Remington Arms Co., exuberantly exclaimed: "We have just received a very large order for munitions from the Republic of Colombia! We expect another from Brazil within 24 hours...