Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flyer, holder of nearly all informal city-to-city speed records in the U. S. and Europe, was not grinning one day last week when attendants at the Worcester, Mass, airport pulled him from beneath his crashed Travel Air "mystery plane" Texaco 13. Day before he had hopped from Detroit (in 3 hr. 5 min.). lectured the Worcester Boy Scouts on the necessity of developing foolproof planes, but had delayed his departure until the next morning because of a soggy field. An escort plane had nosed up when it landed just ahead of Capt. Hawks...
...Stout "SkyCar" does not yet fill the skies. No model of it was visible at last fortnight's national air show in Detroit. But Designer Stout hopes "to fix it so that a man can take a couple of lessons on Friday and fly his plane home on Monday." The commercial "plane that will support itself in the air, financially as well as mechanically," will be developed within two years. The private plane, he snorts, has been a "flop...
Other noteworthy sights last week in Detroit...
...York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He won the Cresson scholarship two years in succession, studied painting in Vienna in 1919-20 when Austria was falling to pieces. Director Max Reinhardt was doing magnificent things on the stage of the Bourg Theatre. After one season in Detroit, Jo Mielziner was taken up by the New York Theatre Guild. Since then he has designed sets for 56 productions, a list including such memorable and diverse productions as The Guardsman, The Wild Duck, Strange Interlude, Street Scene, first, second and third Little Shows, The Barretts of Wimpale Street...
According to Avco, the company is paying Mr. Cord no cash and "less than 140,000 shares of stock" ($2¾ per share last week). Avco receives about 30 Stinson planes (all tri-motors except three or four) which have been flying between St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Toledo and Cleveland; between El Paso and Los Angeles; and between Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. Also it receives Century's new hangar and shop at Chicago Municipal Airport, valued...