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Observers interpreted the disclosure as of far-reaching significance. It was believed to be the first stop toward strengthening bonds uniting the United States and its northern neighbor in a far-reaching hemispheric defense policy outlined by President Roosevelt Saturday night in his Dayton, Ohio, speech...

Author: By United Press., | Title: Over the Wire | 10/15/1940 | See Source »

...President announced that he would make a trip himself this week-stops at Johnstown and Seward, Pa.; a tour of Pittsburgh; tours in Youngstown, Columbus, Dayton, Ohio, climaxed by a worldwide radio broadcast from the parlor car of the train at Dayton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Getting Restless | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...unveiling of a Wright Brothers monument in Dayton, Ohio, keen-eyed, sparse-haired Orville Wright (who has not piloted a plane since 1914) was presented with Civil Aeronautics Authority's Honorary Pilot's License...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 2, 1940 | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...children of a Dayton, Ohio grocer, Irna was teaching dramatics and public speaking at Dayton Junior Teachers College, where she had worked after her graduation in 1923 from the University of Illinois, when she had a bust-up with her boy friend. It occurred at a Sunday night supper; by the following morning Irna was hotfooting it for Chicago. She got her first job in Chicago as an actress with station WGN. Within a few months she was busy writing and acting in her first and almost interminable masterwork, Painted Dreams. Irna continued to turn out Painted Dreams until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Script Queen | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Last week General Motors branched out into still another aviation field: propellers, now dominated by United Aircraft Corp. and Curtiss-Wright. Announced by G. M.'s Board Chairman Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. was the purchase of Engineering Projects, Inc., of Dayton, Ohio. Best guess as to the price: something less than $500,000, plus royalties. Named to head G. M.'s new Aeroproducts Division was Engineering Projects' president, 40-year-old Werner J. Blanchard. He has designed a constant-speed propeller with hollow hub for light cannon, now has under Army test a prop of new design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: G. M. Props | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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