Word: curtiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engines. Last week Clarence Duncan Chamberlin marched into print with a charge that the increase in transport accidents since last summer was due to the inability of new twin-engined planes to take off and fly safely on one engine. Few nights later a twin-engined Curtiss Condor of American Airways, flown by Dean Smith, onetime Byrd antarctic pilot, had engine trouble between Buffalo and Detroit, flopped down, with nine passengers and a crew of three, upon the thinly iced surface of Lake St. Clair, near Windsor. Ont. With wheels retracted, the plane bumped through the ice while the lower...
...with a load of distinguished deadheads for the much-publicized objective of her northern voyage-Chicago's Fair. She was to fly over the city about 9 a. m., but bad weather threatened. While most Chicagoans lay abed-before 7 a. m.-the ship slipped into Curtiss-Reynolds Airport where a ground crew of 250 soldiers hauled her to earth. She stayed long enough for a reception committee to escort Dr. Eckener ashore, cast off 25 minutes later, flew over the Fair on her way back to Akron...
...final match of the University tennis tournament played yesterday afternoon, John Curtiss 2G defeated Walter E. Arensberg 1G, former Harvard captain, in four sets, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. Arensberg played a strong game at the start; he took the first set and had three games in the second, when Curtiss staged a rally to win, 7-5. In the last two sets, Curtiss played a steady game, while Arensberg faltered badly, missing many chances which would have won him the match...
...semi-finals of the University tennis tournament, the only match started yesterday was called on account of darkness. Stanley G. Baskins '35 and John Curtiss 2G, playing for the best three sets out of five, were tied at two sets and five games...
...Arensberg '34, last year's cup winner has been seeded number one; seeded second is John H. Curtiss 5G, former Big Ten finalist while attending Northwestern. Frank W. Jones '35 and Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, two promising Juniors have been given numbers three and four respectively. Upon the results of the matches will depend to a great extent the selection by Coach Harry Cowles of a nucleus squad for indoor practice during the winter months and as a figurative basis of the varsity team...