Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Army. The House Committee had already learned that Consolidated Aircraft Corp. of Buffalo had profited so greatly on an order of Army ships that the Army had asked for and received 50 additional planes delivered for $1 each. Star witness last week was James V. Martin, eccentric inventor of Garden City, L. I. Mr. Martin charged that "this nation for 17 years has been the victim of a gigantic, insidious conspiracy by a small group of banking brokers" who robbed the Government of 75? of every dollar spent on military aviation. The trust, said he, was composed of Curtiss-Wright...
More famed Martin, Glenn L. of Baltimore, was another Navy witness. Manufacturer of the celebrated Martin bomber, which goes 200 m. p. h. and won the Collier Trophy last year, Mr. Martin testified that he had been awarded Navy contracts for 14 years, had done $20,000,000 worth of business with the Government. His average profit was 6%, although in 1927 he had made 19% on a $3,000,000 order. A string of manufacturers followed Mr. Martin to the stand and stated the case that every aviation manufacturer and Army and Navy procurement officer knows. Experimental costs...
...salesman was Henry Peter Martin Jr., syndicate manager of the Des Moines Register & Tribune. He had been immersed in his usual work of selling comic strips and advice on baby-care one day last summer when Gardner Cowles Jr. (Harvard 1925), son of the paper's owner, called him in. Young Editor Cowles was looking through a copy of The First World War, a photographic history edited by Laurence Stallings and just published by Simon & Schuster (TIME, July 31). It showed recruits in camp, soldiers in battle, soldiers wounded, maimed, dead; crowds at home, prisoners being executed, troop ships...
...Martin went to Manhattan, persuaded Simon & Schuster to sell him newspaper rights to the 513 pictures. The Register & Tribune started it at home. Circulation zoomed while book sales held up strong. Two months later Salesman Martin sold the Detroit News; next, the Boston Globe. The three papers combined reported an 80,000 increase in circulation, held it after the series ended. The Washington Star, Baltimore Sun, and the Philadelphia Bulletin fell into line. William Randolph Hearst began to feel the pinch, quickly ordered the syndicate series for all his papers in the 13 cities still open. Scripps-Howard rushed...
...contest until the last period, when Coach Stubbs gave the fourth string an opportunity to practice. The summary: HARVARD OLYMPICS Hasler, Hovenanian, Duffey, Kirkland, l.w. r.w., Smith, Kingsley Moseley, Holmes, Dewey, Watts, c. c., Hilliard, Lombard Beale, Hallowell, Calloway, Lincoln, r.w. l.w., Harris, Lombard Watts, Ware, r.d. r.d., Savard, Martin deGive, Mittell, g. g., Moone...