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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cleveland Air Industry. A queer phenomenon is that Cleveland, vast industrial community, has only one airplane factory-Great Lakes Aircraft Corp. In existence less than a year, it occupies the Glenn L. Martin Co. bomber plant, which that concern abandoned for new facilities at Baltimore. Great Lakes Aircraft president is Benjamin Frederick Castle, 45, onetime Army flyer who went into banking. His chief designer is Holden Chester Richardson, 50, onetime Navy aircraft engineer. They are producing airworthy sport, training, amphibian and cabin planes in small numbers...
Another announcement of last week was made by no less a personage than Alfred Emanuel Smith. Press and public had long waited to hear what he would do instead of being President of the U. S. He is to become president of Empire State Building Corp., a company formed to erect an 80-story office building on the site of the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. It is to be nearly 1,000 feet tall (nearly five times its 200 foot frontage on Fifth Avenue), to contain 34.000,000 cubic feet of habitable space, making it not only...
...Dartmouth as a line coach went "Swede" Youngstrom', 1919 All-American Dartmouth guard who blocked 23 punts in one season. A stiffer line, less passing, is to be the new strategy at Dartmouth...
...great teams before they went into action, lately spoke to a group of coaches at Northwestern University's summer school. Said he: "Pessimism as applied to football has been worked to death. It is time to swing back the other way. . . . Hereafter I will present a more or less radiant picture of my prospects." Of Notre Dame's nine games this fall, not one will be held in South Bend...
Close behind, averaging only .001 m. p. h. less, was brother George Wood in Miss America VII, last year's winning boat. Both other contestants were eliminated by engine trouble. In the second (and final) heat Champion Wood sent Miss America VIII roaring at the new record time of over 75 m. p. h., strengthened the tradition that he is unbeatable on water...