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...Brothers Allan and Malcolm Loughead incorporated as Lockheed Aircraft Co. because people mispronounced their name as "loghead." The Lockheed Vega presently rolled off their line, first of a series of single-motored speedsters which set many a record. In 1933 Lockheed developed the fast, twin-motored, ten-passenger Electra, which immediately became as much the darling of little airlines as the 14-passenger Douglas DC2 simultaneously became of big. When the Electra was launched, Lockheed had 200 employes. Last week the payroll was over 1,400, the plant had just been doubled and all factory hands given...
...also flew around the world on commercial lines. Last week, Aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam took off from Oakland "to establish the feasibility of circling the globe by commercial air travel" and "to determine just how human beings react under strain and fatigue." The plane was the $80,000 Lockheed Electra bought and outfitted for her by publicity wise Purdue University as a "flying laboratory." With her as navigators she took three men, but not her publicity wise husband, who stayed at Oakland to sell her autographs at $6 each...
...Last week, however, a Lockheed Electra of Compañia Mexicana de Aviación, subsidiary of Pan American Airways, crashed and burned with nine aboard in a jungle swamp near Vera Cruz...
...best line in "Mourning Becomes Electra" is the one which some neurotic speaks to the gardener: "Well, Seth, you bin with the Manons a long time." HOWARD M. JONES, Cambridge, Mass...
...gave Caruso in Carmen, the hot potato he mischievously pressed into Nordica's hand. Playing Tosca in Vienna before the War, Jeritza fell on her face, coolly sang the tender aria Vissi d'arte prone. Margaret Anglin once stalked out onto the Carnegie Hall stage to declaim Electra's grief, was appalled to find a cat peering out of her flowing Greek gown. Once when Mischa Levitzki was performing in Carnegie Hall, a mouse crept close to the piano, sat up when the pianist played softly, scuttled off when he played loudly, returned for the pianissimi, required...