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...Dayton, just 3 hr. 1 min. 56 sec. after he left Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Captain Edward W. Kenny, U.S.A.F., eased his swept-wing Republic Thunderstreak (F-84F) to a landing and won the 17th Bendix Trophy Race. Kenny, who broke his back in a World War II landing, screamed over the 1,900-mile course at a record-breaking average speed of 616.208 m.p.h. Previous record: 603.547, set last year by Major William T. Whisner Jr. in an F-86 Sabre...
...Orleans Jazz Party (Gene Mayl's Dixieland Rhythm Kings; Riverside LP). A bunch of youngsters in Dayton carrying on the tradition of "righteous" (i.e., primitive) jazz. They sound for all the world like bands of three decades ago, including twanging banjo and two-beat tuba, but with none of the surface noise of old records, and some fresh ideas...
Boeing took its new plane to demonstrate to Army Air Corps brass at Wright Field in Dayton. With an Army pilot in the cockpit, and Boeing's Chief Test Pilot Leslie Tower aboard, Boeing's 6-17 took off. But the pilot was unaware that the tail surfaces had a lock to keep them from being buffeted by the wind when on the ground. With the controls locked, the plane took off, lurched over on one wing, crashed and burned. Both Tower and the Army flyer were killed. Boeing collected $350,000 in insurance, but Douglas, with...
firm's own balloon-tired "Roadmasters." Raleigh Industries, Ltd., which has an assembly plant in Boston, this spring started to supply all the lightweight bikes for Huffman Manufacturing Co. of Dayton, Ohio ("Huffy"). B.S.A. Cycles...
...week by returning to G.M. Kyes, who had been general manager of the G.M.C. Truck & Coach Division, went back to a new and bigger vice president's job, and as a director to boot. In addition to bossing G.M.C. Truck & Coach, Kyes will head up G.M.'s Dayton operations (engines, accessories, etc.) and household appliances (Frigidaire and Delco...