Word: newcomb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Endurance Success. Cleveland's endurance flyers, Byron K. Newcomb and Roy L. Mitchell (TIME, July 8), kept their Stinson-Detroiter-Whirlwind flying far into last week, made a new record- 174 hr. 59 sec. They made 24 refueling contacts, used 1,903 gal. of gasoline, 87 of oil. Only their own exhaustion brought them down. Motor and plane were in serviceable condition until joy-crazy Clevelanders ripped at them for souvenirs. Also joyous, Otto I. Liesy, vice-president of Stewart Aircraft Co., who financed the project, kissed the flyers-both hard-boiled Army men. Popular son-of-a-brewer...
Endurance Attempts. The Question Mark stayed in the air 150 hrs. (TIME, Jan. 14). The Fort Worth stayed up 172½ hrs. (TIME, June 3). To surpass these records four planes were flying last week. At Cleveland R. L. Mitchell and Byron K. Newcomb took up the Stinson-Detroiter Miss Cleveland. As the new week began they were still flying. Also flying were Leo Norm's and Maurice Morrison in another Cessna at Los Angeles. At Minneapolis Thorwald Johnson and Owen Haughland kept the Cessna Miss Minneapolis up for 150 hrs., when a broken valve forced them down. At Roosevelt Field...
...everyone knows, Western Union and Postal Telegraph (I.T.& T. subsidiary) are the two giants in the field. As President of the super-giant Western Union, Newcomb Carlton took up R.C.A.'s gage. Unimpressed by the wireless threat, he snapped: "The Radio Corporation has nothing we now wish to use, and if we ever need anything they have, we can get it from other sources. For the time being, at least, we will view the disposal of the Radio Corporation as an interesting scientific development...
Apart from telegraphy, Newcomb Carlton has two hobbies. As the largest employer of boys in the world (15,000 youths in forest green deliver telegrams for Western Union), he is interested in boys. Ship models, his other hobby, overflow his summer home at Wood's Hole, Mass. His only son, Winslow Carlton, is a Senior at Harvard. Since 1914 Mr. Carlton has been President of Western Union. Recently The Daily Princetonian pulled a publicity stunt. It telegraphed many a prominent man asking: If you had only 24 more hours to live, what would you do with the time? Prepaid...
Radio-Western Union. Last week David Sarnoff, vice president and general manager of Radio Corp., and Newcomb Carlton, president of Western Union, sailed for Europe on the Aquitania. The incident strengthened rumors concerning a Radio-Western Union merger. Chief obstacle to a union between Radio Corp. of America Communications, Inc., and the Western Union Telegraph Co. is the White Act, Federal law forbidding the merger of wire and radio companies. It is believed, however, that Radio and Western Union will soon conclude an operating agreement. Later an effort will be made to amend the White Act to permit a merger...