Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Ernest Martin Hopkins delivered the eulogy: "He had strength of character combined with a sweetness which made it persuasive. He had uncommon mental capacity, entirely devoid of intellectual arrogance. He had that charm of personality which attaches to one of independent judgment. He had that quality of soul which makes a man a spiritual influence, whether within or without the forms of conventional religious expression. Remembrance of him is too vivid to put in the past tense. The memories of him are of a boy whom to know about was to admire, whom to work with was to respect...
Glenn Luther Martin Co., whose streaking bombers are the envy of all the world's armies, has only two stockholders-Glenn L. Martin and Louis Chevrolet. The founding president owns 525,000 shares. Mr. Chevrolet, who gave his name to the fastest selling automobile in the U. S., owns 1,000 shares.* This week all that will be changed. Through a banking group headed by Otis & Co. 325,000 Martin shares will be offered to the public at $11.50 per share. Founder Martin will donate 150,000 shares of his personal holding to the company for the deal...
...Glenn Martin was fiddling with bicycles at home in Santa Ana, Calif, in 1903 when the Wright brothers made historic news at Kitty Hawk. By 1907 he was able to build himself a glider and a year later he was the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own devising. To laymen the name of Glenn L. Martin has today receded into the dim anonymity of military aviation, but in his youth Glenn Martin was his own able pressagent. He barnstormed with a lady parachute jumper who perched in pink tights...
...Glenn Martin's fancy flying was done for the sole purpose of financing further experimentation. By 1912 he had a plane factory running full blast, and a year later received his first Government contract. In 1918 came the first of the famed twin-engine Martin bombers and since then he has built hundreds of Army & Navy planes. The Martin which won the Collier Trophy in 1933 cruises at 200 m.p.h. with two tons of bombs in its belly. Before the House Naval Affairs Committee in Washington last winter Glenn Martin testified that he had done...
...closed shop guarantee. Until Campbell Soup Co. promised to abolish its company union, grant 1929 wage levels (30% to 40% higher than they were getting), 1,000 soupmakers pledged themselves to stay on strike. In Baltimore 2,300 airplane workers threatened to walk out of the Glenn L. Martin plant unless a 25% increase was promptly granted...