Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four races this year, each had won two. When they crouched on the starting line at Milwaukee last week for the 1,500-meter run in the national Amateur Athletic Union championships, Bill Bonthron of Princeton and Glenn Cunningham of Kansas knew that their fifth race would decide a series that has made track history...
...defenders. Rainbow was designed like Enterprise by William Starling Burrgess. She has seven suits of sails, each consisting of 2 miles of canvas, weighing 1 1/4 tons, costing some $25,000 most of which has been handed down from Enterprise. Her 165-ft. duralumin mast was made by the Glenn L. Martin airplane plant in Baltimore, shipped North in sections. When he selected her name, Skipper Vanderbilt sentimentalized thus: "Rainbow is an omen significant of rift, and parting of the clouds, indicating fair sailing and better times ahead...
...never one to predict whether I'll win nor can I forecast a record. I hear the track is fast and I'm glad of that." So said Glenn Cunningham, University of Kansas senior, as he arrived in Manhattan last week for Princeton's "perfect race." That race was to include three of the greatest milers of the day-Pennsylvania's Gene Venzke, Princeton's Bill Bonthron and Cunningham. The Kansan followed his custom of not bothering to practice. His legs, burned so badly when he was a child that doctors doubted if he would...
...Propeller Service for ten years. Since 1928 he has been associated with Hamilton Standard Propeller Co., subsidiary of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. Started in 1911 by the late Robert Joseph Collier, son of the founder of Collier's Weekly, the Collier Trophy was awarded the first year to Glenn H. Curtiss, the second year to Orville Wright. Since then it has been won, among others, by the U. S. Air Mail Service (twice), the U. S. Army Air Service, Elmer A. Sperry (twice), the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (see p. 41). Last year's winner: Glenn Luther...
...beyond the Commission files, some were privately sold, some will take years to peddle. The rest gathers dust in corporation vaults. The three most notable cases of new industrial financing under the Securities Act were: American Water Works & Electric for $15,000,000; Mathieson Alkali for $6,232,000; Glenn L. Martin Co. for $3,250,000. Investment trust stock accounts for more than half the registrations to date. The liquor industry is in second place, with mining third. The Commission has held up 43 issues offered for registration, due to their promoters' failure to supply all the facts...