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Died. Mazel M. Merrill, manager of the Curtiss Flying Field, Garden City, N. Y., and Edwin M. Ronnes manager of the Buffalo, N. Y., airport; in an airplane crash near Milford...
...Airport. On their engagement pad, last week, was the item: "Take Lindbergh's orange-colored Falcon from Buffalo to Curtiss Field, Long Island." It was, ostensibly, a simple and pleasant item in their business. But they were killed while performing it. A fog, a thickly-wooded hillside near Milford, Pa., a crash into the treetops, a completely demolished Falcon and two burned bodies told the story, crudely...
...Pinchot, who lives at Milford, on the east edge of Pennsylvania, lately had a more trying experience than Mr. McFadden's question. She was being motored home from Towanda by William F. Hinkle, her chauffeur. Near Susquehanna, Hinkle collapsed at the wheel. The car dashed off the road, grazed a pole, stopped itself. Examining Hinkle, Mrs. Pinchot found he had come down with the measles. She got him in the back seat, wrapped him in a blanket, took the wheel herself...
...Water. Simon Lake of New Milford, Conn., submarine inventor, advised dumping oil on the waves to flatten them and permit divers to go down; also, telling the six survivors to keep their heads as high as possible in the torpedo room since carbon dioxide is heavier than...
...This was part of a speech by Mr. Sloan delivered before the automobile editors of the U. S. gathered at the General Motors proving grounds in Milford, Mich., as guests of the corporation. Later he informed the editors that he hoped the corporation would show earnings for the second half of 1927 as great, if not even greater, than for the second half of 1926. If this hope is fulfilled, G. M. C. will show net profits of $222,195,715 as against $186,231,182 for 1926. It is the liberal policy of the directors to distribute half...