Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Los Angeles' Alhambra Airport for a pleasure ride, lit blandly on the edge of town. Citizens were amazed to learn that he could not have been held responsible for any damage his plummeting plane might have done, was not legally responsible to the plane's owner, Mark G. Carlton, for the cracked-up ship...
...Absolutely liable for injury to persons or property on the land or water beneath" is the plane owner, by statutes in most of the 48 States. The pilot is liable only for the result of his own negligence. But since a crashed plane destroys most clues to negligence, pilots are rarely charged. If the Department of Commerce's post-crash investigation shows that the pilot abandoned his plane unnecessarily, or too hastily, his license may be revoked. But in general aviation etiquet leaves the problem of whether to jump or not to jump entirely to the pilot...
Stifled by flat racing until 1926 was its country cousin, harness racing. Then William Neal Reynolds, 70, board chairman of Reynolds Tobacco Co., Manhattan Socialite E. Roland Harriman, Track Owner William Henry Cane of Goshen. N.Y. and John L. Dodge organized the Trotting Horse Club to revive a country gentleman's sport they feared was dying. For 53 summers the trotting descendants of the great U.S. trotter Hambletonian 10, sire of the 1850's, had pounded around the dirt tracks of the Grand Circuit: now bounded by Cleveland, Toledo, Salem, N.H., Goshen, N.Y., Springfield, Ill., Syracuse, N.Y., Indianapolis...
...down between the shafts. Clinging desperately to the reins, Egan, as game as his horse, somehow hitched himself back on the seat but ten sulkies had swept by and Brown Berry finished eleventh. Mary Reynolds, with her two out of three heats, won $28,300 in prize money for Owner Reynolds. Though the crowd felt that Brown Berry had lost by a fluke, experts agreed that Mary Reynolds would have caught him, stumble...
Fifty miles southwest of Topeka lies Emporia. In Emporia, besides Editor William Allen White of the Gazette, who made it famed, lives Warren Wesley Finney, head and owner of Emporia's Fidelity State & Savings Bank, owner of Farmers State Bank of Neosho Falls, owner, through his wife, of Eureka Bank of Eureka. He has been one of Emporia's leading citizens, a citizen who ranked in respect with Emporia's Sage White. Last week, in fact, Daughter Mary Jane Finney was touring Russia with the Whites...