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...Speed Kid" Williams, then 40. Results: Wedell taught nim to fly, sold him a plane, became his good friend, confided his own ambitions. Wedell could not read a blue print (he cannot do it yet) but he knew what kind of plane he wanted. Speed Kid Williams built a hangar on an old sugar canefield on his estate and Jimmy Wedell went to work. Before he was through Mr. Williams dropped a half million dollars, but he had his money's worth last year when Wedell-Williams speedsters hung up a string of records, including a transcontinental record...
...Round Hill, South Dartmouth, Mass., in a dirigible hangar which Col. Edward Howland Robinson (Hetty's son) Green loaned, three of President Karl Taylor Compton's M. I. T. men have built an electrostatic high voltage generator to compete with lightning's violence. Last week in Chicago President Compton announced that shortly the machine would be ready to operate. In preliminary workouts it produced six million volts, would have produced ten million had not the difference diffused into the metal walls of Col. Green's hangar. Workmen now are insulating those walls, and Robert...
...Company, so-named after an Aïda performance Salmaggi put on at Soldier Field last autumn, ends its Hippodrome run this week on the crest of financial success. During the summer Salmaggi intends to put on open-air Aïda in Newark, Boston, Pittsburgh, in the dirigible hangar in Akron. Between times he will hear new singers, rehearse diligently, get new scenery together for the autumn when he will give two months of opera at the Hippodrome. Backers Mayberry and Carroll care nothing about spreading culture (the tin-cup cry of the Metropolitan). But if their autumn venture...
With youthful Secretary of Agriculture Wallace at the controls, Domestic Allotment was wheeled out of its hangar last week for its first trial flight. The noisy warm-up of its administrative motors made a joyful sound to 1,200,000 U. S. wheat growers whose commodity had been picked for the initial experiment under the Farm Relief Act. The consuming public bated its breath to see how this new theory of economic flight would work. Was it to be one more expensive smash-up like the late Farm Board's attempt at price-pegging...
Back in her hangar, the Macon was still the property of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. Not until she has flown 84 hours, of which she flew 13 more two days later, proven that she can make 80 m.p.h., can cruise 10,000 mi. will the Navy accept...