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When midnight came and the Akron remained mute behind a curtain of wind, rain and thunder, Lakehurst tried not to worry. The Akron had ridden worse storms than this one appeared to be. Besides, she was at sea, where an airship belongs; not overland, to be twisted apart by line squalls as was the Shenandoah, or beaten into a hillside, as was Britain's R-101. As for her radio, that could easily go wrong with the atmosphere supercharged with electricity. Not until next day did Lakehurst, and the rest of the world, know what good cause...
Walter Folger Brown, outgoing U. S. Postmaster General, recently appointed receiver of Willys-Overland, was made chairman and active head of Hudson & Manhattan Railroad (Hudson Tubes, connecting Manhattan with New Jersey...
...Kelly-Roosevelt Field Museum Expedition, headed by Harold Coolidge left remote Lao Kay early in 1929. With its impressive impedimenta packed on some ninety sturdy little ponies, tended by their mafous or native drivers, the safari toiled over the ridge of Tonkin and Laos. After several weeks of overland travel, the four American scientists embarked on frail native canoes and floated down the waters of the Nam Hu and later the mighty Mekong...
...Automobile Industry, "best managed industry in the U. S.," suffered its first major casualty last week. The $40,000,000 Willys-Overland Co. eased into a "friendly receivership." Chairman John North Willys, who gave up his expensive Ambassadorship to Poland last spring to resume command of his ailing company, and President Linwood Andrews Miller, were appointed receivers...
Small, hustling Motorman Willys was an Overland dealer in Elmira, N. Y. when in the 1907 panic the company he represented neared the brink of bankruptcy. He scurried to Indianapolis, put up $350 (hurriedly raised in a saloon) to help meet the payroll. Reorganizing the company with himself as president, treasurer, general manager and purchasing agent, he made Willys-Overland a leader in its field during the next decade. The Industry regards him as its pioneer in instalment selling. But Willys-Overland was overshadowed by the rise of General Motors and Chrysler in the great motor boom...