Word: dayton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three more flights were made that day, the brothers taking turns at the controls. The longest was 59 seconds, for a distance of 852 feet. Then the wind picked up the plane, rolled it over and wrecked it. But the Wright brothers, bicycle mechanics of Dayton, had proved that man could conquer...
Tools & Stooges. He had a cozy set-up for the cozy war he fought in Washington and at Dayton's Wright Field. Despite the warnings of superiors that he must have no interest in companies which might be doing business with the Army, Meyers got his fingers into a metal-tooling factory. It was the Aviation Electric Corp., a few miles from his office at Wright. It wasn't much- a 190-ft. by 140-ft. one-story building with no more than 30 machines, at its peak. Benny put about $54,000 in it. He needed...
Pointed Suggestions. Lawrence Bell, president of Bell Aircraft Corp., testified that in 1940 Meyers had recommended the Aviation Electric Corp. of Dayton for $1,053,000 in subcontracts. Benny Meyers had had an interest in Aviation Electric. Major General Oliver P. Echols stated that he had made pointed "suggestions" to Meyers in 1940 that he "disassociate" himself from this company. Meyers, who protested that he had held its stock only as collateral for $34,000 worth of loans, admitted that he had not complied. Instead, he had lent the company another...
...bull-throated, bull-necked newspaper publisher who once directed a Knox-for-President movement, was tactical director of the 1946 G.O.P. election campaign, and claims the smelt-eating championship of the U.S. Congress; and Mrs. Katharine K. Brown (no kin), vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, founder of Dayton's Junior League, member of the D.A.R. and Colonial Dames of America, and vice president of the Ohio Yellow...
Orville Wright, 76, of the plane-pioneering Wright brothers, ran up the steps of a building, collapsed, observed when he came to: "Apparently the exertion was too much for me." At a Dayton hospital next day, Inventor Wright & heart were reported "satisfactory...