Word: curtiss
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...murky, blowy morning, last week, half a hundred people huddled quietly at the Rockaway Naval Air Station, L. I. Some were Colombian civilians, others U. S. aviators. They were waiting for a new Curtiss Falcon seaplane to be drawn out of her hangar and for the arrival of the pilot. He came, a small, slender young man. The aviators hailed him as "Benny." They knew him as the gas boy who filled their tanks at Curtiss Flying Field while he learned flying; the civilians respectfully called him Lt. Benjamin Mendez, of the Colombian Air Service. The seaplane...
...Aeronautical Corp., which bought their airplane patents now makes radial air-cooled (whirlwind and cyclone) motors, but no planes. Nearly 3,000 Wright whirlwinds will have been made & sold this year. Pratt & Whitney (Wasp & Hornet radial motors) is the next largest motor maker, with 1,200 output this year. Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. makes V-type motors for its own planes; Fairchild Aviation Corp. is almost ready to market its Caminez radial engine. Packard and Velie, among motor car engine makers, have modified their motors for flying...
Oils, coppers, utilities up 3 to 7 points as the market opens Wednesday, then churn back and forth. Kennecott copper up 12; Curtiss Aero, 12⅓; Wright Aero, 15½. Turnover: 4,894,670 shares. . . . More on Thursday, 5,037,330 shares, second "five million" day in history, only a handful less than on record-breaking June 12. Montgomery Ward closes at 366. Net gain: 17 points. Mounting, too, are Wright (6½-points more, 22 in two days), Coty, Inc. (10½). Where is the ticker? Over an hour behind (might as well have been a week) on Thursday...
...stop. In May 1923, Lieutenants John Macready and Oakley Kelly, U. S. Army, flew a Liberty-engined Fokker from Roosevelt Field to San Diego in 26 hours and 50 minutes. Last August this same Yankee Doodle, flown by Col. Arthur Goebel, made the crossing from Los Angeles, Calif., to Curtiss Field, L. I., in 18 hours and 58 minutes. He was aided by a tail wind much...
Classifying the group, rough similarities are immediately apparent with American enterprise. All are, or have been, potent factors in the industrial development of the U. S. With the exception of Aviators Wright & Curtiss, all are 60 or over. With the exception of Steelman Schwab, who went to St. Francis College, and Tireman Firestone, who went to business college, none of the group progressed beyond a public high school education. Most of the eight have been powers in their particular fields, have now forged beyond their fields into larger industrial problems. The Ford plant in Dearborn is held the world...