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...Alvan Macauley, president of Packard Motor Car Co., was in Manhattan last week, wanted to go home. The weather was stifling. He called up American Airways which had lately opened New York-Chicago service via Detroit with 15-passenger Curtiss Condors. What was that? . . . All space taken. Why, that couldn't be possible; well, how about tomorrow? . .. Sorry, all booked up for four days ahead. . . . What? Well, let me know if somebody cancels his reservation. What's that? . . . Sorry, Mr. Macauley, we have a waiting list of 30 already. . . . Disgruntled, Mr. Macauley took the train. ¶ With seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Waiting Lists | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...judges' boat voted that Yale had won because he mistakenly expected his Yale confrere to return the courtesy. William Meikleham, Columbia stroke in 1886, who usually referees the race, this year decided he was too old. Harvard suggested a Yale man to replace him, Julian Wheeler Curtiss, 75. president of A. G. Spalding & Bros., who usually runs the Poughkeepsie Regatta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At New London | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...westbound, 20 hr. eastbound-about 10 hr. faster than former schedules. On the New York- Chicago run the new ships heated the already hot competition between United and Cord's American Airways. Few weeks ago Errett Lobban Cord put on a fleet of new "silent" Curtiss Condors, slashed the running time down to 6½ hr. westbound, si hr. eastbound. The new Boeings lopped another hour from that time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Faster & Faster | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

Samuel Levin, president of the Hartford Glider Club, was enjoying a ride in the forward cockpit of a two-seater Curtiss-Wright Junior one day last week over Hartford, Conn. when suddenly the motor quit, the plane's nose pulled up steeply. Sam Levin had enough experience in gliders to know that a stall, a spin, probably a crash were imminent. He glanced hastily backward at Pilot Frederick T. Hawes seated in the rear cockpit just forward of the pusher-type motor. Pilot Hawes's eyes were half closed, his tongue protruded. He was being strangled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Scarf | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...Emerson D History of Religions 3 Sever 35 Latin B Dr. Chase, Sec. 1 Sever 14 Professor Parry, Sec. 2 Sever 17 Mr. Richards, Sec. 3 Sever 13 Latin 1 Sever 19 Mathematics A III Professor Brinkmann, Sec. 1 Memorial Hall Dr. Seidel, Sec. 2 Memorial Hall Mr. Curtiss, Sec. 3 Memorial Hall Mathematics 2 Professor Graustein, Sec. 2 Memorial Hall Mathematics 5b Memorial Hall Mathematics 35 Memorial Hall Music 3a Music Bldg. Philosophy 8b Emerson 27 Physics 26 Pierce 304 Physiology 7 Biology Lab. Psychology 6 Emerson A Semitic 1 Emerson D Semitic 13 Emerson D Sociology 13 Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Exams Today and Tomorrow | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

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