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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name popped up for a transatlantic stunt hop. A California pilot named Thomas H. Smith called his a "research flight." He took off from Old Orchard Beach, Me. in a light Aeronca powered with a four-cylinder, 65-h.p. engine, started for Ireland with 160 gallons of fuel-enough, he hoped, for 32 to 40 hours. Smith had no permit from the Civil Aeronautics Authority, said he wanted to test the possibilities of light planes for long-distance flights. Said one of Smith's friends: "He is a level-headed kid and I think he'll make...
...president and co-founder (with his three brothers) of one of Mexico's most important native-owned airlines, the Compania Transportes Aéreos de Chiapas. Last year it carried approximately 17,000 passengers, 18,000 Ibs. of mail, 3,000,000 Ibs. of freight, made enough money to double its equipment. It now has 28 ships of a half-dozen makes, 14 pilots. Sarabia considers his airline worth about a million dollars...
College baseball is 80 years old and so feeble that it has to be supported by colege football, ten years its junior. Once considered attractive enough to lure crowds of 15,000 to 20,000, college base-)all now attracts only 3,000 or 4,000 specators to its big games. Why this hoary U. S. sport has been snubbed by undergraduates and alumni, no two college men gree. But baseball experts have not ignored college baseball. In its rosters major-league scouts have found many a man for their clubs' lineups...
...instrument. To make amateurs feel like virtuosos has been, in recent years, one great object of U. S. electrical engineers. Six years ago Radio Engineer Benjamin Franklin Miessner patented an electronic piano, in which pickups and a loudspeaker do the work of a sounding board and make amateurs dynamic enough to bring in the neighbors. Today eight companies are licensed to make electronics. Last week big Radio Corporation of America entered this potentially large field...
...business was receding. Overenthusiastic pessimists who had had trouble finding buyers, suddenly found too many buyers. When professional buying began, the shorts ran to cover, joined the buying parade. Result: in two days the Dow Jones Industrial average rose 3.76 points, and stockbrokers enjoyed two successive million-share days-enough to add up to a boom by 1939 standards...