Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, a stub-winged, twin-motored monoplane darted off the Glenn L. Martin Airport near Baltimore, cut the sky at 340-360 m.p.h., landed for checkups by Martin engineers and Army Air Corps observers. It was one of the Army's (and the R. A. F.'s) latest and best bets for air war: the Martin B-26 medium bomber. From two electrically twirled turrets and from fuselage blisters a dozen machine guns bristled-twice the number on such U. S. planes before World War II taught its lesson of more firepower...
...after the Chrysler contract was signed, Hudson Motor also granted its 12,000 workers vacation bonuses. Two days later Briggs Manufacturing (automobile bodies) announced $40 bonuses and 2/ wage increases for 19,000 men. Other bonuses-of-the-fortnight: A & P stores, $1,500,000; International Shoe, $600,000; Glenn L. Martin aircraft, $500,000; Procter & Gamble, $500,000; Horn & Hardart (automats), $340,000; Royal Metal Manufacturing Co. of Chicago...
Daniel W. Willis, GB '33, Glenn Building, Spartanburg, South Carolina...
...most startling note in the popular group is Harvard's acceptance of the conventional path. When the country acclaims a band or song or when a number is rated high on the Hit Parade broadcast, sales to Harvard students take a rapid jump. Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, and Will Bradley are praised and followed by the Harvard faithful. At the moment, Bonny Goodman is making a comeback since the critics have approved his new band...
...Glenn," I said (I call him Glenn), "what do you think of these awful riff tunes that guys like Tommy Dorsey and Larry Clinton play...