Word: errett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operation was, in fact, a master piece of economy. Specially designed Stinson tri-motors requiring only one pilot were bought from Errett Lobban Cord. Automobile gas was used for cruising, until aviation gas prices were forced down to 7½? per gal. Pilots were instructed to taxi on one motor instead of three. . . . Result : Cost per mi. was 37?, while other operators of tri-motors were having difficulty in getting under $1 per mi. At the end of the first year, September 1, Ludington had made 8,300 trips, about 28 per day; carried 66,000 passengers (average load...
When Sir William receives his D. C. L. degree he may mutter casually his favorite expression: "Not too bad, not too bad!" And he may reflect that his potent U. S. competitors Henry Ford, President Alfred Pritchard Sloan of General Motors, John North Willys, Walter Percy Chrysler, Errett Lobban Cord, have no such degree...
...Chicago, making an eight-hour service between New York and Chicago to compete with National Air Transport (which flies via Cleveland). The Chicago-Columbus route was operated by Continental Airways, until that company went out of business last month. T. & W. A. swiftly grabbed up the strategic opening. (Errett Lobban Cord's new Century Airlines, radiating out of Chicago, was said to have turned a covetous eye upon the Columbus route.) The other new service was American Airways, Inc., between Cincinnati and Atlanta. Flying time is 4? hr., with stops at Louisville, Nashville, Chattanooga. Other strategic schedules...
...Largest claims: Buhl Aircraft Corp., 271 midget planes for $338,750; Pitcairn Aircraft Co., 38 autogiros for $322,000. But other exhibitors, despite an epidemic of price cutting, were frankly disappointed by lack of business. As he did at last year's show in St. Louis, Errett Lobban Cord began the price-slashing by reducing his Stinson Junior by $1,000 to $4,995, to get under the five-passenger Bird. Curtiss-Wright followed by cutting its four-place sedan from $6,370 to $4,595. Both builders admitted they could not make money at the price...
Last week, however, one of the marching motormakers suddenly became conspicuous. He was 36-year-old President Errett Lobban Cord of Auburn Automobile Co. and Cord Corp. Abruptly he burst from the slow-moving ranks, raced down the road with unprecedented speed, shouted great tidings of Auburn prosperity...