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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...NFPPC was formed to combat the Lucky Strike campaign. Chairman is A. M. Kelley, of Wallace & Co., Brooklyn candy makers...
...York next September. Capt. Henry W. Lyon Jr. (navigator of the Southern Cross) as navigator, Reserve Lieut. Albert D. Hulse as engineer, with others as yet unnamed, are to be the crew. A plane powered with five 420-h. p. Pratt & Whitney motors, with a cruising speed of 120 m. p. h. is to be the vehicle. Twenty-two refueling stations, including ten for emergency only, are to be established. Estimated cost...
...over Nova Scotia, the next near Glasgow, more in Germany, Poland, Russia, Siberia, Alaska, etc. etc. The route as planned is said to be only about 13,500 mi. (about 10,500 mi. shorter than the circumference of the earth at the equator). At an average speed of 120 m. p. h., 13,500 mi. would take about 112?...
...Giuseppe M. Bellanca has a secret. In his factory at New Castle, Del., is a big new plane about which only the following details were rumored last week: It has two Pratt & Whitney Wasp motors mounted tandem in the nose, one driving an ordinary tractor propeller, the other driving a shaft connected to a pusher propeller at the rear end. The tail of the plane is held out behind this rear propeller by two outriggers from the wings. Out of the Bellanca secrecy has issued this rumor: The plane is being built for Shirley J. Short, oldtime air mail pilot...
What the Jury Was Not Told. Judge Burrows refused to allow the defense to call any of a large group of witnesses who were at hand to testify as to the reasons why the Medical Review of Reviews had first published the article, or why the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., churches, Union Theological Seminary, and various social organizations had distributed thousands of copies of The Sex Side of Life during the past ten years...