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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fostered for two years in order to focus U. S. attention on aviation?Charles Augustus Lindbergh. With Mrs. Lindbergh he had returned in his motor cruiser Mouette from honeymooning off the New England coast to the estate of Daniel Guggenheim, Fund creator, and was ready for work. He first flew Harry F. Guggenheim for 15 minutes in the Brunner-Winkle craft. Then he took Mrs. Lindbergh up for a ride in a Curtiss Falcon...
...fortnight ago, for doing all these things for aviation he received the first "Spirit of St. Louis Aeronautical Medal," just established by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers...
...Guard pilot, discovered a wheel loose and a strut broken on his landing gear. To land meant wreckage. What to do? He climbed to two thousand feet, gave the controls to the mechanic, who knew but little of piloting, broke a hole in the fuselage bottom, crawled through head first. Hanging by his feet he ingeniously used his belt, a piece of rope and a shoelace to lash the broken gear together. The repair sufficed to let him land safely at Hartford...
When, last fortnight, J. P. Morgan & Co. announced a merger of three potent New York State power companies (TIME, June 24), only New York Staters were deeply interested. When, last week, final approval of the long-pending merger of Continental Oil and Marland Oil companies was interpreted as first step in a national Morgan oil corporation, public interest was wider but still quiescent. But also announced last week was a Morgan-managed merger of Fleischmann Co., Royal Baking Powder Co., and E. W. Gillett, Ltd.* At that the country sat up and took sharp notice...
When Morgan-Men first discussed the food merger, the Fleischmann distributing system was an important consideration. The only rival for speed and regularity admitted by Fleischmann in daily national distribution is the U. S. Post-Office. The only foodstuff rivals are the various milk companies, none of which are nationwide in scope. Fleischmann's yeast is delivered fresh every day to more than 30,000 bakeries and to 250,000 groceries, delicatessens, hotels and other retail outlets. No jobbers are used?delivery is direct from 900 Fleischmann agencies. Fleischmann's operates a transportation subsidiary which has 200 railroad cars...