Word: pitcairners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clarence M. Brown, vice president, was elected chairman of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co,. succeeding the late William Lewis Clause. Harold F. Pitcairn. automaker, was added to the directorate. The company is the largest U. S. maker of plate glass, is expanding into chemicals. Albert Spalding, nephew of Albert G. .Spalding, and Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. were elected to the directorate of A, G- Spalding & Brother
...Autogiro came swimming down upon the South grounds of the White House?first airplane landing on the President's domain. A few minutes later President Hoover presented the Collier Trophy to Harold F. Pitcairn and associates for their development of the Autogiro...
...Pitcairn Autogiro, first display of a small model powered with a 125-h. p. motor and priced...
...entered by 49 exhibitors?the show was a success. As to the immediate return in terms of sales, there was a difference of opinion. Seventeen manufacturers claimed 636 planes sold for a total value of $1,652,751. Largest claims: Buhl Aircraft Corp., 271 midget planes for $338,750; Pitcairn Aircraft Co., 38 autogiros for $322,000. But other exhibitors, despite an epidemic of price cutting, were frankly disappointed by lack of business. As he did at last year's show in St. Louis, Errett Lobban Cord began the price-slashing by reducing his Stinson Junior...
Publicity Ladies. Nicely timed to give publicity to the planes exhibited at the National Aircraft Show in Detroit, three record flights by women were made last week: Elinor Smith flew a Bellanca Skyrocket to (apparently) 32,500 ft. over New York; at Philadelphia, Amelia Earhart Putnam piloted a Pitcairn autogiro to 19,000 ft., higher than an autogiro had ever been flown; at Detroit, Ruth Nichols streaked along a 3-kilometer course at 210 m. p. h.-almost 30 m. p. h. faster than a record set by Miss Earhart...