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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trials to win $100,000 for the safest plane extant began at Mitchel Field, L. I., last week. The Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics provided the prize money, and an additional $10,000 for each of the first five planes to qualify in the contest. Entries must register before Oct. 3. Until last week only a dozen were listed as competitors. Six were U. S. makes...
...purpose of the Guggenheim Fund contest is to get a plane not merely safe in skilled hands, but foolproof under all kinds of conditions. Such a plane must be able to land slowly, take off quickly, climb steeply, glide either at flat or steep angles and remain under control at all speeds and altitudes, even though weather conditions prevent the pilot keeping on even keel...
Some 6,000 U. S. high school students sloganed thus and similarly in a contest which ended last week. Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. had offered a prize for a phrase which would stir public sentiment against such man-made rural ugliness as "hot dog" stands, billboards...
Papa's decision was that she must return home. Accordingly Miss Universe left the U. S. at once, going home by way of Cuba. Hearst-thinker Arthur Brisbane commented, of course, on the contest. The traditional Brisbanality at such a juncture would have been to the effect that the noblest thing Miss Universe could now do would be to go home and marry some good man and be a good wife and exercise woman's richest function, Motherhood. Instead, Mr. Brisbane Brisbantered...