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Ralph Haxlett Upson, designer of the first successful metalclad airship, the ZMC-2 . . . Aeronautical Engineer...
...profession's most august and potent national organization. Last week the A. B. A. held its 53rd annual convention in Chicago. Of its 29,386 members,* 2,415 crowded into the Stevens Hotel ballroom, jostled about among friends in lobbies, listened to many a long speech. Sad-eyed Henry Upson Sims of Birmingham, Ala., A. B. A. president, welcomed delegates with assurances that constitutional liberty was still safe in the land, that "visions of social strife are but phantasmagoria of morbid brains...
Sheldon Whitehouse, new U. S. minister to Guatemala, made known that Charles Gates Dawes, Ambassador to England, had sent Dr. Charles Upson Clark, onetime (1916-19) director of the School of Classical Studies of the American Academy in Rome, to the Vatican...
Elections. To succeed President Gurney Elwood Newlin, the Association elected Henry Upson Sims of Birmingham, Ala. John Howard Voorhees of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and William Patterson MacCracken Jr. of Chicago were reflected Treasurer and Secretary...
...Detroit. The world's first all-metal dirigible, built stubbier than a Zeppelin, was successfully tried out for the first time. Built experimentally for the Navy by Aircraft Development Co. (subsidiary of Detroit Aircraft Corp.) after designs of Ralph Hazlett Upson, onetime Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. sausage balloon and blimp designer, the all-metal dirigible has a skin of aleled (duralumin core with surface coating of pure aluminum...