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...operation was, in fact, a master piece of economy. Specially designed Stinson tri-motors requiring only one pilot were bought from Errett Lobban Cord. Automobile gas was used for cruising, until aviation gas prices were forced down to 7½? per gal. Pilots were instructed to taxi on one motor instead of three. . . . Result : Cost per mi. was 37?, while other operators of tri-motors were having difficulty in getting under $1 per mi. At the end of the first year, September 1, Ludington had made 8,300 trips, about 28 per day; carried 66,000 passengers (average load...
...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 by $1,000 to $4,995, to get under the five-passenger Bird. Curtiss-Wright followed by cutting its four-place sedan from $6,370 to $4,595. Both builders admitted they could not make money at the price...
...ranch at San Simeon, Calif. Publisher William Randolph Hearst went up in a Stinson monoplane for what was said to be his first flight since the early days of barnstorming aviators...
...stockings for men, women, children. In Minneapolis is the main Munsingwear plant, where some 3,000 workers are kept busy by 1,546 sewing machines, 650 needle-knitting machines. Also in Minneapolis is the main Munsingwear office, where a potent board of warmly clothed directors including Flourman Charles Stinson Pillsbury watches the company's affairs. Munsingwear's record sales year was 1926 when a $17,962,000 business was done. Recently its sales have been about even with Associated's $15,000,000. To knitted goods it has shrewdly added rayon products as an earnings-stabilizer...
Simultaneously, Stinson made first delivery to Century Lines on "the largest commercial plane order ever received by an airplane company"-for 100 planes and extra engines and equipment aggregating nearly $3,000,000. Retail price of a Stinson trimotor is $25,900. Youthful E. L. Cord, who opened one of the first automobile washing and greasing stations in Los Angeles, and who hoisted himself through the used-car business to the presidency of Auburn Automobile Co. and the $291,000,000 Cord Corp., is also president of Century Air Lines. With him is his Auburn vice president, L. B. Manning...