Word: cochran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only event to prove much else was the Bendix transcontinental race-Los Angeles to Cleveland, then on to Bendix (N. J.) Airport. Pert, blonde Jacqueline Cochran, only woman entrant in the field of ten, flew in first and fastest to win $12,500 and demonstrate Designer Alexander de Seversky's 3,000-mile-range pursuit ship...
Wife of Financier Floyd Odium, Winner Cochran covets the mantle of the late Amelia Earhart more than she does prize money. But when told she had clinched the race and the $12,500, she cried: "Goody, goody!" But the race a Labor Day throng of 300,000 jammed the airport environs to watch was the Thompson Trophy free-for-all, 300 miles around pylons. Hottest shots in the field of eight were flashy Colonel Roscoe Turner, 1934 winner and unscathed veteran of six Thompson competitions; and his reckless young San Diego rival, towheaded Earl Ortman. At 100 miles they...
Through his publicity agent, Bernarr Macfadden, 70, let it be known he had bought from Flier Jacqueline Cochran Odium a low-wing Northrop "Gamma" monoplane which Howard Hughes flew when he established his 1936 U. S. cross-country record (9 hr. 26 min. 10 sec.). With his new 225-m.p.h. plane, Publisher Macfadden, who has had 1,100 hours of solo flying, promises he will compete for the Bendix Trophy (Los Angeles to Cleveland, Sept...
After much waiting. Secretary Morgenthau, speaking by telephone to First Secretary H. Merle Cochran of the U. S. Embassy, Paris, dictated two precious paragraphs. After these were handed on Embassy stationery to Premier Daladier. confirming that what he was going to do was no violation of the Tripartite Monetary Accord of the U. S., France and Britain which was signed to keep their three currencies level with each other (TIME, Oct. 5. 1936), Premier Daladier was able to announce devaluation of the franc over the radio and to tell Frenchmen that the pound and dollar would not be devalued...
Lorenze J. Taylor, 1B, former University of South Carolina glove pusher, pounded out a decision over Paul O. Chatfield '39 for the 125 pound crown. Edward Cochran '38 outslugged Edward P. Richardson '39 in the 135-pound finals...