Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cleveland Air Industry. A queer phenomenon is that Cleveland, vast industrial community, has only one airplane factory-Great Lakes Aircraft Corp. In existence less than a year, it occupies the Glenn L. Martin Co. bomber plant, which that concern abandoned for new facilities at Baltimore. Great Lakes Aircraft president is Benjamin Frederick Castle, 45, onetime Army flyer who went into banking. His chief designer is Holden Chester Richardson, 50, onetime Navy aircraft engineer. They are producing airworthy sport, training, amphibian and cabin planes in small numbers...
...Chicago, runs a taxi and hopping service at the Cleveland airport, has an aviation school there. Continental Air Lines, Universal subsidiary, operates a mail and passenger line between Cleveland and Louisville, by way of Akron, Columbus, Springfield, Dayton and Cincinnati. Colonial Western Air Lines, Universal affiliate through Aviation Corp., flies mail and occasionally passengers by way of Buffalo to Albany, where connections are made with the Canadian Colonial Airways New York-Montreal line. Thompson Aeronautical Corp. carries passengers by amphibians to Detroit, and mail beyond to Ann Arbor, Bay City, Kalamazoo, Chicago. At Cleveland it also has a taxi service...
Several airplane sales agencies conduct schools, taxi services or hops: U. S. Air Lines, Dungan Airways, Cleveland Institute of Aviation, Skyways, Stewart Aircraft Corp., Floyd J. Logan Aviation Co., Curtiss Flying Service (now being...
...occasion was the announcement that he had become Chairman of the Board of a new Five Borough Trading Corp. (his first venture in business outside of politics). The Five Borough, fostered by Jerome B. Sullivan & Co. of the New York Curb Exchange, is to finance "small, sound, growing businesses" for the benefit of the people, to save them from losing their money to tipsters and bucketshops...
Another announcement of last week was made by no less a personage than Alfred Emanuel Smith. Press and public had long waited to hear what he would do instead of being President of the U. S. He is to become president of Empire State Building Corp., a company formed to erect an 80-story office building on the site of the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. It is to be nearly 1,000 feet tall (nearly five times its 200 foot frontage on Fifth Avenue), to contain 34.000,000 cubic feet of habitable space, making it not only...