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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even before the dangerous downwind landing, Sarabia's friends had their fingers crossed. His plane, the Q.E.D., had an unlucky history. In 1934 in the Granville Brothers' factory (Springfield, Mass.) it was built for Jacqueline Cochran to fly in a London-Melbourne race. Miss Cochran was forced down at Bucharest. Later the Q.E.D. was entered in four important U. S. races, never finished one. Last year Sarabia bought it from Dealer Charles Babb of Los Angeles...
...Started to compare some classical vocal records with those of various jazz artists last week in an effort to label differences of phrasing--ran across Marion Anderson's new album of the Songs of Brahms and found it to be beautiful, simple singing, especially the Alto Rhapsody which is built around episodes in the lonely Hartz Mountains in Germany. Miss Anderson makes the stark tonality of the song ring long after the record is over. Indeed, one can find much to compare in the after effect of the Anderson and the Holiday records. They are sincere versions of different types...
...automatic radio station, completed only two weeks ago, is the first device of its kind in the world. Built in a small wire-closed enclosure behind the main buildings, the station consists of a number of complicated (instruments which constantly check the weather conditions and send out radio signals to a receiving set on the top of the Observatory tower. When received on the tower, the signals are transmitted up on graphs, so that a permanent written record is available for government and research stations. The only thing Professor Brooks has to do is to see that the sending apparatus...
...Glenn L. Martin Co. was in Cleveland and its president had virtually quit flying. From that plant came the first Martin bomber, a huge, two-engined biplane. Built too late to get into the War, the first Martin bomber went to the Air Service. A great cranelike thing that drifted in stodgily to its landings, it was the standard bombardment plane of the service until the middle...
...Baltimore. Adding designers, draftsmen, withdrawing more & more from designing to administer the business, Martin turned out better & better models in rapid succession. He swapped little information with other manufacturers, became known as a sombre lone wolf. From the Cleveland plant came the first plane built specifically for mail service, the first metal American monoplane, of which the Navy bought 36, the first bomber with an alloy-steel fuselage, of which the Navy bought...