Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Harold Glenn Moulton of Brookings Institution LL.D...
...compact fighting plane to be carried aboard Navy airships. Or any of several companies for perfection of a controllable-pitch propeller. Or the Department of Commerce for its network of radio beacons which was in complete daily use last year. The committee chose none of those but turned to Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore for its Army bomber which can streak at 200 m.p.h. with two tons of bombs in its big belly...
...name of Glenn L. Martin is one of the oldest currently famed in U. S. aviation, and one of the least popular. When the Wright brothers were doing mysterious things in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, Glenn Martin, 17, was tinkering bicycles at his parents' home in Santa Ana, Calif. Four years later he built a glider: a year later, a crude 22-h.p. pusher airplane which got off the ground. Thereby he became the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own invention. To get funds for further experimentation Glenn Martin became...
...large contraption that looked something like a horseshoe crab with a fin on its back and a propeller in its nose was wheeled out on the airport at South Bend. Ind. one day last week. Glenn Fesler Doolittle, 23-year-old cousin of famed Pilot Jimmy Doolittle, climbed into a pit in the crab's back and flew it away. Around & around the airport he flew, as fast as 97 m.p.h. (although the motor was only 37 h.p.), flipping and diving the weird machine like a kite in a gusty sky. Finally he brought it down, sinking gently...
...Reverend C. Leslie Glenn, Rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, will conduct the services at 8.45 o'clock this morning in Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church...