Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan the American Museum of Natural History's President Frederick Trubee Davison, onetime Assistant Secretary of War for Air, was preparing to sail for a four-month African hunting trip with Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson. Commissioned by his curators to bring back, among other specimens, four medium-sized young elephant bulls or cows, he said: "I haven't the slightest desire to shoot an elephant. ... I hate to think of killing one of those magnificent animals...
...Martin bomber is a mid-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear, two 550-h.p. Cyclone engines built into the wing. A transparent enclosed turret in the nose houses a machine gun crew. In tests the ship had to be throttled down to keep pace with its convoy of pursuit planes...
...name of Glenn L. Martin is one of the oldest currently famed in U. S. aviation, and one of the least popular. When the Wright brothers were doing mysterious things in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, Glenn Martin, 17, was tinkering bicycles at his parents' home in Santa Ana, Calif. Four years later he built a glider: a year later, a crude 22-h.p. pusher airplane which got off the ground. Thereby he became the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own invention. To get funds for further experimentation Glenn Martin became...
...airplane builder in earnest, he had his factory running full blast in 1912, producing planes for barnstormers and intrepid sportsmen. As early as 1913 he got the first of the government contracts on which he has since thrived. In 1917 came the first of the Martin bombers, first U. S.-designed airplane for Liberty engines. Since the War, Martin has produced hundreds of patrol boats and torpedo planes for the Navy, bombers for the Army, from his former Cleveland factory and his superb new plant near Baltimore. An unsuccessful mail plane was Martin's only non-military venture lately...
...Builder Martin's engineering staff is always of the best but he is not a good mixer, has had numerous bitter quarrels with business associates and employes. One such is his onetime chief engineer. Donald Douglas, now a famed airplane builder of bombers, amphibians, transports in his own right. Builder Martin has not piloted a plane for some 15 years. He dresses nobbily. lives in Washington with his mother. Mrs. Minta Martin, his constant companion, who was to be on hand this week when President Roosevelt formally presents the Collier trophy...