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Died. Inglis Moore Uppercu, 66, one time world's largest retailer of luxury cars (Manhattan's Uppercu Cadillac Corp.); after a long illness; in Manhattan. The fair-haired, blue-eyed Chicagoan closed his law books in 1896 to work as a Duryea automobile mechanic, in 1931 after 29 years as Cadillac's master salesman sold out to General Motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 17, 1944 | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...hookers had met several times before-on the Baltic. Seven Seas was a Swedish training ship launched in 1912. U. S. Yachtsman Inglis Uppercu bought her in 1929. sold her last year to 74-year-old William S. Gubelmann (National Cash Register Co.). Joseph Conrad, older (1882), smaller (116 ft.), chunkier, was also a training ship-used by the Danish Government for 52 years. Three years ago Author-Adventurer Alan Villiers saw her in Copenhagen, heard she was for sale, snapped her up. took a crew of eight nationalities on a picaresque world cruise, wrote a book about it (Cruise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dinner Race | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Married. Mary Lilian Uppercu. daughter of Inglis M. Uppercu, Cadillac agent; and George Winthrop Haight, Manhattan lawyer; in Rumson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 11, 1933 | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

Nonetheless, the Manhattan show contained many an eye-filling exhibit. Vivid colors, big bulks, graceful stream lines satisfied even the veriest tyro. Towering over other ships on the main floor was the Burnelli Flying Wing. Adjacent was the latest Aeromarine Klemm amphibian, also manufactured by the Uppercu-Burnelli group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Manhattan Show | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...deterioration and the extra weight of the soaked-in water spells less carrying capacity and smaller flying range. The Aeromarine Plane & Motor Co. of Keyport, N. J., is doing pioneer work replacing wooden hulls with metal duralumin. To show the Navy what his metal hulls could do, Inglis M. Uppercu, A. P. & M. President-likewise President of the Uppercu Cadillac Corporation of Manhattan, and a keen yachtsman-had one of his ships, the Morro Castle, 2nd, fly from San Juan, Porto Rico, to the docks of the Columbia Yacht Club on the Hudson. When Pilot C. J. Zimmerman, Floyd Whalton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Metal Hull | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

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