Word: gwinn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nutmeg reached its readers last week, it carried an enthusiastic boost for a stubby "flivver" biplane by illustrious Frank Hawks, pacemaker to U. S. commercial aviation. For his Nutmeg contribution he had been promised a year's subscription to the paper. "Fool-proof," wrote Frank Hawks of the Gwinn "Aircar" behind which for the last year he had been putting all his reputation and energy. "It will not spin and it will not stall. . . . With only an hour or two of instruction any average person (even the intelligentsia) can fly our ship. . . . A development that should go down...
Nearly a year ago, short, sturdy, smile-flashing Frank Hawks forswore his 20 years of headlong, rough-&-tumble aviation, became vice president of the Gwinn Company, and shuttled around Eastern airports showing what the Gwinn airplane could do. But even in such a head-over-heels endorsement as his Nutmeg contribution, Hawks had felt constrained to set down one big but. "Birds," he reminded the Nutmeg's readers, "are the only ones who never fail to make a perfect landing...
Highlights in the program, will be Louis De Flores, World Champion Paper Strafer, who will given an exhibition of his art, and Frank Hawks, renowned pilot will demonstrate the new Gwinn Air Car which is an airplane with controls like an automobile...
...William Gwinn Mather, Cleveland manufacturer LL.D...
...staunch men" support every community chest. Cleveland, which raised $4,667,224 for its chest and $751,300 additional for unemployment relief, has its Samuel Livingston Mather, richest citizen. He gave $186,000. His step-brother William Gwinn Mather gave...