Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amusements & Airacomets. The X-2's flight made the kind of aviation history Larry Bell could appreciate. When he first started building flying machines in 1913 at the Glenn L. Martin Co., the firm was listed in the phone book under "Amusements." Working with such other aviation pioneers as Martin, Fred Rentschler and Donald Douglas Sr., Planemaker Bell helped change the joke into one of the world's greatest industries. By 1935 he had his own company in Buffalo...
Freight Shrinker. A freight-car Shrinker to cut cargo damage in railroad cars (last year American railroads paid more than $98 million in claims) was announced by New York Inventor Glenn F. Wilkes. The Shrinker is a movable steel bulkhead at each end of a freight car. As the cargo starts to shift in transit, the bulkhead automatically forces it back in place through a system of cogs and springs...
Wisconsin. Despite lack of Administration support, 72-year-old Alexander Wiley is a good bet in a bitter Sept.11 primary against Organization Candidate Glenn Davis, should win over the victor of the Democratic primary (Henry Maier v. Elliot Walstead...
...latest strike in the old Pierce Junction salt dome, where wells are pushing ever closer to Houston's city limits. For more than three decades prospectors in Pierce Junction made occasional strikes at conservative depths of 2,000 ft. to 5,000 ft. Then, in 1949, Wildcatter Glenn McCarthy dared to go deeper, brought in a well from between 7,000 ft. and 8,000 ft. But McCarthy did not follow through. Not until lesser-known Wildcatter E. C. Scurlock brought home a deep payload late in 1954 did the Pierce Junction boom begin...
...FRAMES: Convair and Glenn L. Martin Co. are developing separate intercontinental frames, each with a different shape and rocket arrangement. An intermediate-range frame is being developed by Douglas Aircraft...