Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brewer, Warren & Putnam...
...While Amelia Earhart (Mrs. George Palmer Putnam) was being officially reprimanded by the Department of Commerce for "poor judgment" in her autogiro crackup (TIME, June 22), her husband's publishing company (Brewer, Warren & Putnam) brought out the first book written by Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks. Last week Capt. Hawks returned from Europe, unloaded his plane from the steamer at Quebec, flew it off the pier...
Making the return journey to New York last week Mrs. Putnam and Mechanic Eddie de Vaught were taking off from Abilene, Tex. Mrs. Putnam, by her own explanation, neglected to make a sufficient run before boosting the 'giro into the air. Lacking momentum, the ship failed to get altitude, clipped a landing light at the edge of a parking enclosure. Pilot Putnam "sat down," striking two automobiles, damaging the plane, injuring nobody. Then she proceeded to Oklahoma City to resume her flight in another 'giro which is owned by the Beechnut Company...
...Putnam was scrupulous in her praise of the autogiro for the slightness of the accident. But she could not prevent the headlines which varied from MISS EARHART AVOIDS SERIOUS AUTOGIRO CRASH, through AMELIA EARHART'S AUTOGIRO CRASHES to EARHART AUTOGIRO SPINS TO EARTH IN TEXAS CYCLONE...
...Transport, which appointed her assistant to the general traffic manager. Last autumn she was given charge of publicity for Ludington Line (plane-per-hour) operating between New York and Washington, a job lately delegated elsewhere. Few months ago Miss Earhart married her friend and sponsor. Publisher George Palmer Putnam (TIME...