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Ford's Reliability. Edsel Bryant Ford, donor of the annual trophy for reliability in the National Air Tour (TiME, Sept. 29) last week (for the first time) saw it won by his own company's entry, a Ford 7-AT monoplane powered by one Wasp and two Wright J-6 engines. The winning pilot, Harry L. Russell, took the lead of the 18 contestants early in the 4,900 mi. race, gradually increased it through the two weeks of flying, finished the circuit at Detroit with 58,575 points. Until the final leg, Pilot Russell was always threatened...
...cushion in George Haldeman's Bellanca Pacemaker they extracted a half-case of beer. In short order the agents collected a washtub full of liquor, while late arrivals, grasping the situation at sight, hurled bottles right & left before their planes could be searched. Among 18 flyers competing for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy, the Ford tri-motor piloted by Lieut. Harry Russell led by 1,763 points. Second was the Waco of John Livingston, last year's winner, to whom a second and third victory would give permanent possession of the trophy...
...Annual national Air Tour for Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy. Start: Detroit, Mich...
...building the plane that the public wants to buy, and that proves we are standing still." No mere disturber, no second-rate competitor disgruntled over his own failures uttered those words last week at Langley Field. Va. It was William Bushnell Stout, vice president (to President Edsel Bryant Ford) of Stout Metal Airplane Co., builders of Ford tri-motor all-metal transports. His listeners. 200 manufacturers and engineers and Government air service officials, were assembled to view the year's accomplishments of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. U. S.-supported research body. Mr. Stout saw hope...
...Gallery of American Art, Phillips Andover, Mass, (reputed to have spent $750,000 on American painting of all periods); the Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney collection; the Cranbrook Foundation, Bloomfield Hills, Mich, (decorative and sculptural art); Circusman John Ringling; Mr. & Mrs. Chester Dale of Manhattan; Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Edsel Ford...