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...tiny Associated Press despatch which was followed by silence so complete that wary U. S. editors suspected another hoax. Then it developed that the bike plane's inventor was a well-known oldtime flyer named Enea Bossi, now in charge of stainless steel research at E. G. Budd Manufacturing Co. in Philadelphia. Steelman Bossi, unaware until newshawks descended on him that news of his "aerocycle" had broken in Milan, disproved any hoax by showing motion pictures of himself making the first human-power flight in history in Milan last Sept. 13. The story was kept secret because the aerocycle...
...Gray; with a dinner for 1,400 in the Omaha. Neb. Municipal Auditorium. Railroad presidents present were Milwaukee's Henry Alexander Scandrett, Chicago & North Western's Fred Wesley Sargent, Northern Pacific's Charles Donnelly, Pennsylvania's Martin Withington Clement, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's Ralph Budd...
...continuing members of the committee are Kenneth P. Budd '02, of New York City; George P. Denny '09, of Boston; George W. Martin '10, of New York City; Sydney P. Clark '14, of Philadelphia; Franklin E. Parker, Jr. '18, of New York City; and Lawrence Coolidge '27, of Boston...
...Some members of a prospective For-Landon-Before-Cleveland club: Massachusetts' onetime Governor Alvan T. Fuller: onetime Ambassador to Mexico J. Reuben Clark Jr.; Penman Walter A. Schaeffer; Saltman Sterling Morton; Princeton Professor William Starr Meyers; Publisher Eugene Meyer; Railroader Ralph Budd; Motorman Charles W. Nash: President Michael Joseph O'Brien of Chicago's Stock Exchange...
...Busman Wickman sold out for $60,000, wandered to Duluth where he began buying up small businesses. Established as Northland Transportation Co., this system prospered so sweetly it looked good to Great Northern Railway's then President Ralph Budd. Unlike other railmen, he considered busses not as rivals but as possible allies. In 1926 Great Northern therefore bought 80% of "Northland for $240,000. Leaving that concern largely in Great Northern's capable hands, Busman Wickman formed Greyhound Corp., a holding company for a baker's dozen of other buslines which he & associates proceeded...