Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More famed Martin, Glenn L. of Baltimore, was another Navy witness. Manufacturer of the celebrated Martin bomber, which goes 200 m. p. h. and won the Collier Trophy last year, Mr. Martin testified that he had been awarded Navy contracts for 14 years, had done $20,000,000 worth of business with the Government. His average profit was 6%, although in 1927 he had made 19% on a $3,000,000 order. A string of manufacturers followed Mr. Martin to the stand and stated the case that every aviation manufacturer and Army and Navy procurement officer knows. Experimental costs...
...years ago Gene Venzke, who used to train for races by running to his job in a Pottstown, Pa. mill, became the first human to cover a mile on foot indoors in 4 min., 10 sec. Last year Glenn Cunningham of Kansas University, who took up running after his legs had been so badly burned in a schoolhouse fire that he was never expected to walk again, beat Venzke. Last summer Venzke and Cunningham were joined by Bill Bonthron of Princeton, who finished second to Jack Lovelock of Oxford in the fastest' mile on record. Lovelock's time...
...University of Kansas' Glenn Cunningham; the one-mile run of the Millrose Athletic Club track meet in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, for the second time, after challenging and passing able Miler Gene Venzke of University of Pennsylvania...
...extraordinary gathering that approved such a modest financial report. It included George J. Mead, director of United Aircraft, who last month told a Senate Committee how his $207 investment zoomed to a paper profit of $7,800,000; Glenn L. Martin, builder of swift Army bombers; Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, builder of Navy airships and head of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's department of mechanical engineering; Dr. Theodor von Karman, famed Hungarian aerodynamicist in charge of aeronautics research at California Tech; Willis Ray Gregg, new No. 1 U. S. Weatherman; Elmer A. Sperry of gyroscope fame and many...
...inform the public about the Norfolk Prison Plan. It will be sponsored by Dr. Richard Cabot '89, Professor of Social Ethics and Clinical Medicine, Emeritus, of the Harvard Medical School, John R. P. French '04, Headmaster of the Cambridge School, C. J. Friedrich, Associate Professor of Government, Reverend Leslie Glenn of Christ Church, A. N. Holcombe '06, Professor of Government. Dean Clarence Skinner of Tufts College, and Mrs. Henry Wise of Cambridge. The meeting will be open to the public. The student committee on arrangements consists of F. DeWolfe Bolman '35, Raymond Dennett '36, Comstock Glaser '35, Malcolm Knowles...