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Granville's Luck. Two years ago Zantford D. ("Granny") Granville was one of the two most successful manufacturers of racing planes in the U. S. His factory at Springfield, Mass. turned out the Gee Bee (Granville Brothers) in which Jimmy Doolittle set a world's record (294 m. p. h.). Some people who had been interested in Bellanca were ready to finance Granny Granville on toward bigger things. Then he had bad luck when his two entries cracked up at Indianapolis last summer during the transcontinental Bendix Trophy race (TIME, July 10). Three months ago his backers withdrew...
...life of his own father? Then why get so confidential with him about historical characters? George Washington swore like a trooper. All right. Teach it to the children. But-wait until they're old enough to understand. Then it will increase their respect. Then they will say, "Gee, he was a regular guy!" Economics: No pupil hereafter must leave the high schools of New York unable to understand the front page of his newspaper. Vocational training: Our entire scheme . . . must be revamped. ... To this day we're teaching boys to be wood-workers. But are we training them...
...Gee--this is crazy! But I started and all I can do is finish. I'm a sophomore --not that that would necessarily necessitate my finishing because I started. Oh!--mercy! Wotta letter this is turning...
...when the 1933 National Air Races were run off at Los Angeles last week "Russ" Boardman and his Gee Bee 11 were not there to make that extra 5 m.p.h. Instead, his plane was a pile of wreckage in Indianapolis and his dead body was being flown back to his Hartford home. Without him, the fastest time flown at Los Angeles was 280 m.p.h.-first time in National Air Race history that one year's speed record was not bettered the next...
...wind-up of the meet for the famed 100-mi. Thompson Trophy, Designer Z. D. Granville spunkily entered one of his stock model Gee Bee's, but every observer knew the winner was simply a choice of one of the three Wedell-Williams...