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...family maintain a lively interest in the church, and Harold received part of his schooling in its academy. Like de la Cierva, Harold Pitcairn learned to fly as a youngster, but he did not engage seriously in aviation until 1924. He founded Pit cairn Aircraft Co. at Willow Grove, Pa., and in 1925 went to Spain to discuss the autogiro with de la Cierva. In 1928 he brought the first autogiro to the U. S. and with part of the fortune which he realized from sale of his profitable New York-Atlanta airmail route to the Curtiss-Keys group...
...York Safe Deposit Co., but that was as close to banking as he got until 1905 when, at the age of 36, he was chosen to be president of Citizens Trust Co., Brooklyn, at its formation. In the interim he had worked for wholesale dealers in basket and willow ware, first as bookkeeper, then as salesman. Selling suited him and he started selling life insurance, soon led all Brooklyn salesmen...
...agony of her grief, the white had striven to reassert itself. But now, as she threw her body forward and felt herself falling, even in that instant, the black finally triumphed. "Instantly the fear of a suicide's death stiffened the grip of her strong fingers on the willow branch. "Too late. The brittle willow branch snapped. Vith a wild scream she fell, clawing at the crumbling bank, into the silent motionless water." So you see-on the theory that a Negro never commits suicide-unless living in an unnatural environment such as cities-Precieuse did not commit suicide...
...confused with the helicopter is the Cierva Autogiro which, while capable of vertical descent, cannot take off without a short run and cannot hover indefinitely (TIME, Sept. 2). Officials of Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Co. of America declared last week that commercial production would be begun at Willow Grove, Pa., in August or September...
...Lapp herder, who is accompanied by three other Laplanders, six Eskimos, a medical attendant and a member of the Alaskan Geographical Survey Department. Reindeer fare in winter is the hardy Alaskan lichen; to get it deer must paw through a foot of snow. In summer they graze on greens, willow buds, blueberries...