Word: howards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Collins (alias Chester Howard), 27 got out of San Quentin Prison last month after doing a stretch for a payroll hold-up in San Diego. Last week in Reno, Nev. he ran across two former pals who were with him on the San Diego job. They urged him to join them in a new robbery. He said he was going straight. To fortify his soul he attended evening services at the Reno Baptist Church...
...point faster than men had traveled such distances before, he used to crow: "That's the way the airlines could fly this route if they'd take that outside plumbing off their ships." Recent years have seen most of Frank Hawks's speed records fall to Howard Hughes, but they have also seen the "outside plumbing" disappear from commercial aviation. By 1935, when Frank Hawks quit flying for Texaco, the 200-mile-an-hour transport flying he predicted had been approached...
...Howard Spring-Viking...
Save the Saugatuck (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Bridgeporter Edwin Gerschefski's musical plea for defense of the Saugatuck River's natural beauty against industrialization, played by Howard Barlow's orchestra...
Sportsman Flier Howard Hughes has piled up more outstanding aviation records than any professional. Once holder of the world landplane speed record, he has set marks round-the-world, from New York to Paris, Miami to New York, Chicago to Los Angeles, U. S. coast-to-coast. Last week, with no more to urge him on than a seven-mile tail wind and the desire to try out a new type of oxygen mask, Flier Hughes with three companions took off from Glendale, Calif, in the same 7 ½-ton Lockheed 14-II transport plane that carried him around...