Word: elstner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electricity, but with no commercial success. Three years ago Julius D. Madaras, Detroit Hungarian, persuaded six power concerns that he could succeed by adapting a Magnus rotor such as carried Anton Flettner's sailing vessel Baden-Baden from Hamburg to Manhattan (TIME, May 24, 1926) and lifted Harold Elstner Talbott Jr.'s hydroplane from Long Island waters in 1930. The utilitarians gave Designer Madaras $104,000 to build a demonstration rotor at West Burlington, N. J. Last week he showed them that it works...
...Harold Elstner Talbott Jr. resigned as chairman of North American Aviation...