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...putting the $2,986.25 in a savings bank. Recently he bought back his ten Atchison for $350. With the additional money he bought ten shares in each of 85 well-known companies, such as Baltimore & Ohio, Erie, Wabash, Anaconda Copper, Baldwin Locomotive, United Cigar, Kreuger & Toll, Curtiss-Wright, Republic Steel. He still had left $8.75 to buy a haircut, a shave, a pair of shoes before taking the accumulated savings bank interest of about $450 to buy an automobile. If he had bought the 850 shares when he sold his Atchison in 1929, they would have cost...
...quiet gentleman, now 62 with grey hair. One of his first accounts was that of Samuel Insull and he still handles most of the Insull advertising business. He denies a persistent rumor that he is related to Samuel Insull by marriage. In addition to his utility accounts he has Curtiss Candy (Baby Ruth), Florsheim Shoes, Paris Garters, Rosehill Cemetery, Sheaffer Pens. Well known in circles other than advertising, he sits on Chicago's Board of Education. His interest in public affairs derives from his long friendship with Indiana's late Democratic Boss Tom Taggart. Boss Taggart controlled French...
...from Buffalo one day last week went Harvey Ogden, crack test pilot for Curtiss Airplane & Motor Co. in an experimental observation plane Curtiss had built for the Army. He was to "fly its wings off" if he could. At 15,000 ft. he did. As the ship started boring earthward Pilot Ogden jumped, pulled his parachute ripcord. A flailing wing slashed the 'chute shrouds, Pilot Ogden plummeted to earth. The billowing 'chute drifted lazily in the wind, fluttered to earth an hour later, miles from where the body struck...
...Fraulein Antoine Strassman, German aviatrix, as "assistant purser" (because no passengers were allowed), the flying boat bent a safe zig-zag course from New York via Newfoundland and the Azores, the first jump of 1,100 mi. being the longest. Favored by wind and sky, her twelve rebuilt Curtiss engines roaring in perfect chorus, the DO-X touched Southampton on the fifth day, pointed for Lake Constance, Switzerland whence had begun her stumbling ten-month flight...
...house in a hangar, the giant flying boat DO-X has been high & dry on the beach at Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, N. Y., since August. Riggers have been busy scraping and painting the hull, re-doping the great wing. Mechanics have reconditioned the twelve 600-h. p. Curtiss Conqueror motors, stepped them up 50 h. p. apiece. Last week Captain Friedrich Christiansen announced that DO-X would take off for the return flight to Europe via Newfoundland and the Azores about...