Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME, until now fair and accurate where Sikorsky Aircraft are concerned, goes into a flat spin when in the Oct. 7 issue under Transport it refers to the Sikorsky Clipper as "Far outmoded by the new Martin Clipper, which has three times as much carrying power." Every schoolboy knows the Martin boat is some 25% larger than the Sikorsky and that carrying power-whatever this may be-cannot vary far from this ratio. The size is not everything. Pan American Airways, for whom both boats were built, has placed goodly orders for Sikorsky Clippers, some of them within...
...credit to Sikorsky Aircraft for pioneering the art of ocean flying. Sikorskys will be surpassed by Martin's new China Clipper at hauling passengers, mail & express over such long routes as the California-Hawaii run (2,410-mi.) But the Sikorsky Clipper will continue to give able service in South American waters, is admirably adapted to the 1,250-mi. jump across the Tasman Sea contemplated by Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith's airline...
Said Father Lindbergh at the Glenn L. Martin airplane factory in Baltimore: "No comment...
...Well, is this Mr. Charles Martin Puffer...
...This is most emphatically Mr. Charles Martin Puffer talking. Do you have anything...