Word: stinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month The Iron Age reported from Detroit that Stinson Aircraft, having just taken $1,853,451 of Army business, was planning to expand its Wayne (Mich.) plant. Continental Motors Corp., at work (with RFC and new private money) on plane engines, was erecting two buildings at Muskegon (Mich.). A few weeks ago, Pratt & Whitney gave a green light to famed Detroit Architect Albert Kahn, who had blueprints ready on a Wednesday, received bids Thursday on 1,800 tons of structural steel for a plant in Detroit...
Marquette was organized little more than a year ago, by another executive with an airline pilot's ticket in his pocket: convivial, pianoplaying, 33-year-old Winston Weidner Kratz. He ran it on a shoestring for months with outdated Stinson tri-motors. The line was a natural. From a TWA connection at St. Louis it ran to Cincinnati, crossed TWA again at Dayton, and continued north to Toledo and Detroit. But until CAA gave it a certificate of convenience and necessity it was not an airline entity, had no sales value. Loudest to shout against a certificate for Marquette...
...been set up in a pasture, on a building roof or a hilltop, where towns without flying fields will have to set theirs. Between two 40-foot poles, 50 feet apart, stretched a rope with a mailbag attached to it. From the sky one of All-American's Stinsons, trailing a four-pronged hook from its belly on a cable, bore down and passed over the rope between the poles. Out of the Stinson tumbled a bag of Coatesville mail. Neatly, the dangling hook snagged the stretched rope with the mailbag attached (see cut). As the monoplane picked...
...Rena Stinson, 27, expert rifle shot and personal secretary to Democratic Governor-reject Walter A. Huxman of Kansas, closed her desk in the State Capitol for the last time last week as her chief went out of office. She went home, began to clean her target rifle, shot herself in the left breast, almost but not quite fatally...
...sale was his first, a $700 reconditioned and guaranteed Eaglerock three-seater. His largest: $400,000 worth of assorted ships for export to France in 1936, intended, he guesses, for Loyalist Spain. As sidelines he rents ships to Hollywood cinema studios, runs a skywriting business, operates the Ryan and Stinson agencies for Central and South America...