Word: curtiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World's first aerial sleeper service was launched by Eastern Air Transport last autumn (TIME, Oct. 16) when an 18-passenger Curtiss Condor with two berths (upper & lower) was assigned to the night run between Newark and Atlanta. When airmail contracts were cancelled in February, Eastern Air discontinued the night run to Atlanta and, with it, air sleeper service. When the company began flying mail again three months later, the sleeper service was not resumed...
...crew in the U. S. As the athletic import of the race declined, its social prestige increased. Last week more than half of the commissioned yachts in Eastern waters were crowded into the mouth of the Thames. Biggest were boats like Carl Tucker's Migrant (661 tons), Arthur Curtiss James's Aloha (659 tons), Hiram Edward Manville's Hi-Esmaro (1,333 tons). J. P. Morgan's Corsair (2,181 tons), like Gerard B. Lambert's three-masted schooner Atlantic (303 tons), stayed in the harbor below the bridge. Her Harvard-alumnus owner, wearing...
...working. The competition among the candy bar specialists is as quick-burning as carbohydrates. Williamson Candy's Oh Henry! (a core of fudge covered with soft caramel, rolled in loose peanuts and dipped in chocolate), was named for a neighborhood handy man, became a best-seller in 1920. Curtiss Candy Co.'s (Chicago) Baby Ruth pays no royalties to Babe Ruth because it was named ostensibly for the late President Cleveland's daughter "Baby Ruth,'' who died of diphtheria in 1904 at the age of 12. Curtiss launched 100 new bars, of which 87 were...
Died. Mrs. Ella Cannon Hill Hogan Flinn, 25, granddaughter of the late J. WT. Cannon (cotton) and cousin of Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith; after a fall from a penthouse balcony while watching her husband, Emory Flinn. Curtiss-Wright Corp. employe, take a photograph of her one-month-old son; in Manhattan...
...trophy is made annually by the President of the U. S. Graduate of the University of Virginia and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where he built a glider and wrote a thesis on propellers), Frank Caldwell put his education to practical use by becoming chief of the propeller division of Curtiss Airplane Co., then Chief of the U. S. Army Propeller Service for ten years. Since 1928 he has been associated with Hamilton Standard Propeller Co., subsidiary of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. Started in 1911 by the late Robert Joseph Collier, son of the founder of Collier's Weekly...