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...dusty, musty smell peculiar to large expositions was missing from Detroit's second All-American Aircraft Show last week. Several thousand sightseers and several score actual plane purchasers each day could comfortably inspect 104 plane models, exhibited by 44 oldtime and 16 freshly organized manufactories. Planes ranged from the tricky little Heath at $975, which only the best of pilots dare handle, to the $67,500 Fokker, for which, with its ornate fittings* Cadillac's President Lawrence P. Fisher just paid $75,000. In between were sturdy one and two-seater open cockpit monoplanes and biplanes. Most models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Detroit Show | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Their Story. When they sailed, Fran knew what she wanted−romance, and a luxurious orgy of aristocracy, after the mediocrity of Zenith; but Sam only knew that he'd like to see the land of his ancestors, inspect the Rolls Royce and Mercedes plants; then, refreshed, rush home to work at a motor caravan idea for campers, or a residential section for Zenith that should be guiltless of Tudor castles and Swiss chateaux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tycoon | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...small group of nine persons, headed by a member from Poland. The advantageous feature of the Committee is that it can call upon the experts of all nations, just as it asked an Englishman and a Frenchman, specialists on tuberculosis and diseases resulting from dust, to inspect the conditions in the gold mines of South Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Hamilton Blames World War for Breakdown of Health Services-Describes Work of League Health Committee | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

...Director of the International Educational Cinematography Institute of the League of Nations in a recent interview with the CRIMSON. Dr. de Feo is in the United States for a few weeks attempting to establish an "entente amicale" between his organization and the American film industry and visited Cambridge to inspect the Harvard Film Foundation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twentieth Century is Age of Cinema Declares League of Nations Expert--Dr. de Feo Inspects Film Foundation | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

...Event was Commander Byrd's successful flight to inspect some 10,000 square miles of Antarctica in a Fairchild monoplane with Pilot Bernt Balchen and Radioman Harold I. June. They saw some mountain peaks no one had seen before and decided to name them for John D. Rockefeller Jr.,* one of the heavy contributors to the expedition's fund. They named one peak for the expedition's cook, George Tennant, and seeing a bay in the ice barrier, "said Commander Byrd, "to name it Hal Flood Bay, after my mother's brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Jolly Place | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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