Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Hatch (author of Glenn Curtiss; Pioneer oj Naval Aviation) has the right idea but the wrong place. On the Wrights' first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, their plane rested on a car which ran on a monorail. After a 35-to 40-ft. run, the plane lifted from the rail, and in Orville Wright's own account "climbed a few feet, stalled, then settled to the ground. My stopwatch showed that the machine had been in the air just 3½ seconds." It was not until nearly a year later, on a cow pasture near Dayton...
Band of the Year. Not since the first golden days of Glenn Miller and Harry James had a band's popularity reached the proportions of a craze. What was all the shouting about...
Cross Country (nine miles): Taylor, Nordblom, Lund, and Wasserman. Glenn and Begert for nordic combined only...
...season he could make playing pro football looked pretty tempting to 2nd Lieut. Glenn Davis, late of West Point. It obviously had more glamor as well as more pay than his Army job ($2,412 a year). So he wrote a confidential letter of resignation to his commanding officers. Last week, after some noisy throat-clearing in Washington, "Junior" Davis got a sharp answer from Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall. Normally, said Royall, an officer can resign from the Army when he wants to, but this was still a time of "national emergency." The Army, he said, needs trained...
Shelved. The Glenn L. Martin Co.'s high-altitude "3-0-3" passenger plane, designed for short hauls, has been shelved. Reason: lack of orders and working capital. The Martin Co. expects to have an operating loss of $36,000,000 this year. Despite tax carry-backs of $20,500,000 and an RFC loan of $26,775,000, the company has just enough working capital on hand to fill Martin's military orders and continue the production of the "2-0-2," a slower, non-pressurized version...