Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, Mich...
...exciting stories came from the National Aircraft Show which closed in Detroit last week, that did not mean the show was not a good one. Rather it meant that the developments shown there, while important to the industry, were no longer spectacular to the layman, who has come to regard aviation as a matter-of-fact. The building of a 30-passenger plane is no longer front-page news...
...Treat," To speed his employer's friend Arthur Brisbane (see p. 48) from the National Aircraft Show at Detroit to the Ford plant at Dearborn, Henry Ford's Chief Engineer William Benson Mayo despatched one of their trimotored planes. Wrote Colyumist Brisbane of the flight: "Pilot William W. Mounts invites you to take the controls, not, however, letting go of the dual set himself. The plane puts its nose down, then puts it up, then turns on its side, going 130 miles an hour. That is supposed to be a great treat. It's a mistaken supposition...
Sued for Divorce. Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, longtime outfielder, later manager of the Detroit "Tigers" baseball team; by Mrs. Charlie Marion Lombard Cobb; in Augusta, Ga. Charge: "Cruel treatment." Said Mr. Cobb, in San Francisco: "I am surprised and shocked...
Publicity Ladies. Nicely timed to give publicity to the planes exhibited at the National Aircraft Show in Detroit, three record flights by women were made last week: Elinor Smith flew a Bellanca Skyrocket to (apparently) 32,500 ft. over New York; at Philadelphia, Amelia Earhart Putnam piloted a Pitcairn autogiro to 19,000 ft., higher than an autogiro had ever been flown; at Detroit, Ruth Nichols streaked along a 3-kilometer course at 210 m. p. h.-almost 30 m. p. h. faster than a record set by Miss Earhart...