Word: knute
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Studebaker Corp. has a neat biography. Founded in 1852 by two bearded brothers who made wagons, it is the U.S.'s oldest vehicle maker. Its net sales once reached $166,000,000. It once employed famed Knute Rockne as a sort of supersalesman. When the company failed in 1933, after three years of refusing to admit the existence of Depression I, its grand old man, President Albert R. Erskine, went home and shot himself. Later, under former Vice Presidents Paul Hoffman and Harold S. Vance, it became the first automobile company to reorganize under famed Section...
...coast-to-coast collection of 81 players on his varsity squad, 42 of whom were captains of their prep-school or high-school football teams. Starting the season with 177 varsity candidates, he weeded them out until he had three complete teams, any one of which the late, great Knute Rockne, his teacher, might have been proud of. Victor over Kansas, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Carnegie Tech, Army, Navy and Minnesota on successive Saturdays, last week Notre Dame added Northwestern to its string-and incidentally exhibited a substitute quarterback named Willard Hofer who scored all nine points...
When a big three-motored T. W. A. Fokker crashed in 1931, killing among others Knute Kenneth Rockne, that type of plane was grounded. Last week the Bureau of Air Commerce (day after it was done by the company itself) grounded Northwest Airlines' eight new Lockheed 14 H transports, fastest in the world. One had crashed with ten people in Montana fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 17). From the 1931 order the Fokker plant never recovered; Fokker airplanes disappeared from...
...mean choice did California make, however. It chose a great Alabama team coached by Frank Thomas who was Knute Rockne's quarterback at Notre Dame in 1921-22. This choice gives California a chance to defeat a university which in four previous appearances in the Rose Bowl has never been defeated. An earnest of a thrilling game on New Year's Day is Alabama's 1937 record. Undefeated and untied this season, Alabama scored 225 points to 20 for its nine opponents, won the last three (from Tulane, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt) by scoring in the last five...
...period-Fokker-building not only most of the big commercial transports but such famed planes as the Josephine Ford which Admiral Byrd flew over the North Pole. Volatile, ambitious Tony Fokker wanted to make Teterboro the No. 1 U. S. airport. He might have succeeded had not Knute Rockne's death in a Fokker transport in 1931 banished Fokker planes from U. S. skies. With Fokker and his plant gone, Teterboro sank into obscurity and neglect. Lately it has had nothing to boast but its name. Last week even that went. By unanimous vote...