Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Clair Sloan got in, Nebraska won back the touchdown they had spotted Kansas. Before long Dutch Witte twisted 36 yd. for another. Nebraska 12, Kansas...
Because Germany's great aircraft builder Dr. Claude Dornier frankly told the right U. S. industrial leaders last spring that he needed money to expand his manufacturing plants at Friedrichshafen, General Motors' President Alfred Pritchard Sloan last month went over to Friedrichshafen with a staff of engineers. They looked over the Dornier plant, machines and blue prints. They saw the 12-motored Do-X, which last fortnight carried 169 passengers over Lake Constance. Result was that Mr. Sloan bought for General Motors the licenses to manufacture Dornier planes in the U. S. General Motors lawyers immediately busied themselves...
...present leaning to aviation may be considered world-spread. General Motors is the emergency reservoir whence Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker draws cash and credit for his airplane factories in Holland and nine other European countries. Last week he disembarked at England from the U. S. and hastened to Mr. Sloan's transient London quarters. There they held a quick, pointed conference on combining European and American Fokker interests into a worldwide organization with factories on both continents and a centralized sales agency. Quickly after the talk Mr. Fokker left England in his private trimotored plane for a thorough inspection...
...Gotham Hospital. It's fees will be moderate-an attempt to solve the great contemporary problem of giving first class medical aid to the man who is neither a millonaire nor a pauper. Women doctors will have equal opportunity with men on the staff. Said Matthew Scott Sloan, president of the great New York Edison (electric) Co., and chairman of the fund raisers, cheeringly: "I believe that women have a distinct contribution to make to the health of a community and should be given every chance to make that contribution." Mr. Sloan, an electrical engineer, is closely affiliated with...
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors Corp., watched his new million-dollar yacht, Rene, slide into the water at Wilmington, Del. Rene is the diminutive of Mrs. Sloan's name (Irene...