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...used-car business to the presidency of Auburn Automobile Co. and the $291,000,000 Cord Corp., is also president of Century Air Lines. With him is his Auburn vice president, L. B. Manning. Together they have kept careful watch on the operations of New York, Philadelphia & Washington Airways ("Ludington Line") which began in September a plane-per-hour service with Stinsons (TIME, Sept. 8). What they observed must have encouraged them...
...Ludington averaged 135 passengers per day for the first four months and carried 266 the day before Christmas. With each ship flying 6½ hr. per day, depreciation through obsolescence is low. Costs were kept down also by using ordinary automobile fuel foi cruising, high-priced aviation gas for take-offs and landings only. President Cord's announced plan is to develop Century along the same lines as Ludington, but much farther. The first unit, scheduled to open March 9, will serve Chicago-Detroit-Toledo-Cleveland (which route Stout Air Lines recently abandoned); and Chicago-Springfield-St. Louis. Five...
About the same size was a Ludington "Sportship Senior," Gray-powered, designed by Outboard Racer Jake Dunnell...
Robert Law, George M. Pynchon Jr. and Elliot S. Phillips have worked up the Westchester Club. Charles Townsend Ludington is busy at Philadelphia; Major Lorillard Spencer, Count Alfonso Villa and William H. Vanderbilt at Newport; George Hann at Pittsburgh; David S. Ingalls at Cleveland; Robert R. McCormick, Joseph Medill Patterson, Philip Wrigley, John J. Mitchell at Chicago; William G. McAdoo Jr., Tod Ford Jr., Aldrich M. Peck at Los Angeles; William G. Parrott, Peter B. Kyne, Julliard McDonald, Thomas B. Eastland, Alexander Young, Edward H. Clark at San Francisco...
...careers, collecting data to aid the Board of Admissions in problems related to methods of selecting students, and in general assembling information that will be helpful in educational and vocational guidance and in the placement of graduating seniors. The establishment of the new department now made possible by Mr. Ludington's gift reflects the keen interest shown in problems of personnel study by the alumni and students alike...