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When his market goes flabby, a manufacturer may 1) reduce price, 2) create new outlets for his product. Last spring, Errett Lobban ("E. L.") Cord started the general slash of airplane prices by marking down his Stinson planes and Lycoming motors (TIME, March 3). Last week he announced formation of Century Air Lines, Inc. to fly trimotored Lycoming-Stinson transports over a network of plane-per-hour schedules radiating from Chicago...
...BRYAN STINSON, tramp athlete and professional football player, through the generosity of an alumnus is brought to Cheltenham University to "get an education." He naturally becomes the football star of the college, receives all the class offices, is the idol of sorority girls, and is admired by everyone as being a "real man." After he has given his all for his college in the final game of his senior year the story of his professionalism leaks out but is successfully covered up. Stinson, however, confesses later that he is a professional, resigns from his college responsibilities...
...have been saps to stay up." Gross rewards: possibly $30,000 in gifts, contracts for advertising and appearance at fairs. The champions might well have consoled themselves that lack of enthusiasm over their exploit would serve to forestall any early attempt to better it. But in Portland, Ore., the Stinson monoplane On to Oregon was taken aloft for just that purpose by the Brothers Tex, Dick & Bud Rankin, noted airmen of the West...
Toothpaste. Since early this year, Kolynos Co. of New Haven, Conn, (which annually hands out thousands of little yellow tubes of toothpaste at Yale football games) fondled the idea of stimulating its South American trade with a publicity flight. The Stinson monoplane K, it was planned, would fly nonstop 9,000 mi. to Buenos Aires, refueling in the air en route. After weeks of persistent misadventure, the K took off from New Haven two months ago, landed the same day at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. where the crew of three angrily disbanded. Last week Pilots Garland Peed, Randy Enslow...
...Flagpole Sitting." Capt. John O. Donaldson and Pilot Ole Oleson planned a flight to test the endurance of planes, not of pilots. At Roosevelt Field, L. I. a Stinson monoplane would be flown by relays of relief pilots sent aboard at intervals by a rope ladder dropped from the refuelling plane. The pilot being relieved would drop to earth with a parachute. Last week Director Gilbert G. Budwig of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, refused to sanction the flight, refused to waive the rule requiring aircraft to remain 300 ft. apart in the air. He said...