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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Detroit, fourth U. S. community (pop. 1,378,900), has $25,000,000 invested in the aviation industry in its neighborhood. Aircraft motor makers are Continental Motors Corp., Packard Motor Co., Stinson Aircraft Corp., Stout Metal Airplane Co. At the show last week Eastman Aircraft Corp., and Verville Aircraft Co. for the first time exhibited planes. Cadillac Aircraft Corp. and Trella Aircraft Co. showed experimental models. Four other concerns are working on aircraft designs...
...Motor Cooler...
...luxury not found in the First Class of many small and old eight-day boats. Today the fastest ship in the world is still the Mauretania but with the advent of the Bremen a new speed queen should reign on the Atlantic, at least until 1930. The largest German motor ship, M. S. St. Louis of the Hamburg-American Line, sailed from Hamburg on her maiden voyage to Manhattan, last week, tips the nautical scales at 16,750 tons...
...Wood stepped out of his boat, forgot it, and set to work designing another boat to go even faster. His first racer was a panting dinghy that the experimental Gar teased up to eight miles an hour by squirting raw gasoline into the air bell of the motor with an oil can. His latest, before the careening flash of last week, was the beautifully designed Miss America VI that dove in the Detroit River last September at an unofficial speed of 102 m. p. h. In 1912, relaxing from problems of speedboat design, he invented and perfected the hydraulic hoist...
Died. Roscoe Bradbury Jackson, 50, of Detroit, automobile pioneer, organizer and president, since 1923, of Hudson Motor Co.; of influenza; in Mentone, France...