Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed Greenville lynch trial (TIME, May 26) drew to an end. On the ninth day, haggard from strain, Judge James Robert Martin Jr. read his instructions to the all-male, all-white jury. He minced no words: "A court of law recognizes no color. . . . I instruct you . . . not to allow any so-called racial issue to enter into your deliberations. . . ." The jurors filed out. A door closed behind them...
Sherman H. Hawkins, of 118 Common Street, Walpole, a graduate of Walpole High School. Martin Karplue, of 259 Otis Street, West Newton, a graduate of Newton High School...
Died. Captain Martin L. Smith, 27, one of the Army Air Forces' top jet pilots, holder of the unofficial U.S. speed record (619 m.p.h.), veteran of 78 wartime fighter missions; when his jet-propelled P-80 Lockheed Shooting Star hurtled into the ground; near Xenia, Ohio...
Lockheed's Robert E. Gross had thought he had "ample reserves to face the peace." Now they are gone. The Glenn L. Martin Co. laid off 2,000 workers last fortnight, and last week announced it would skip its quarterly dividend. Douglas Aircraft Co., which can usually make money if anyone can, reported a loss of $807,000 in the quarter ending Feb. 28. On the first 20 DC-6 transports delivered, it has lost over $5,000,000. (It hopes to make a profit on them eventually.) Republic Aviation Corp., now building the Army's fastest...
Next day the planemakers trooped to Washington to tell their story to Senator Owen Brewster's aviation subcommittee. Glenn Martin, short of cash, has been able to borrow only $3,000,000 from bankers. He has had to ask RFC for a $25,000,000 loan to keep operating. Martin emphasized that modern planes can't be built on a shoestring basis. Said he: "National defense needs have advanced to a supertechnical stage which makes it impractical and unrealistic, if not impossible, to carry out the Government's past policy of a skeleton peacetime military organization...